Nithin Kamath’s Weblog

Google Talk is a simple and free way to talk with and send instant messages to your friends. Like Gmail, Google Talk uses Google’s innovative technologies to help people communicate more effectively and efficiently. Think of it as Google’s approach to communications.

Google Talk is easy and intuitive to use. All you need to make free calls is an Internet connection, a microphone, and a speaker. After you download Google Talk, sign in with your Gmail username and password. Invite your friends to download Google Talk, and once they do, you’ll be able to talk or IM with them instantly.

To use Google Talk, you need Windows 2000, Windows XP (Home & Pro), or Windows Server 2003. You’ll also need a minimum 56k dial up connection.

Google Talk also supports standards-based communication clients, which means that Gmail users can access the Google Talk service and exchange instant messages using other clients that support the standard XMPP protocol, such as Trillian, GAIM, iChat, Adium, and Psi. This allows users to access the Google Talk service for instant messaging from all major platforms, including OSX, Linux, and Windows.
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I am able to connect to the Google Talk service using the GAIM client, and i am really enjoying it now, since most of the people i know have gmail id’s and it was difficult to know their yahoo/msn id’s if i wanted to contact them through IM, with Google Talk it is really simple. Google now has E-mail, groups, IM, search and a host of other services, so only time will tell what’s next from Google…May be a Operating System based on linux or a browser based on FireFox….