google says…

August 25th, 2005

Wednesday Google introduced a new tool, Google Talk. It is a simple text-chat voice over IP program similar to MS Messenger. I was surprised at how fast this application spread across the internet. Wednesday morning I’d never heard of Google Talk in my life, by 4 o’clock Wednesday afternoon I was chatting away with 5 different friends from across the world! All you need to get talking is a Gmail address[1]. You can then download and install the application and start inviting your friends.

At the moment Google Talk is still very limited, but I suspect that we can look forward to some great features [2] to be added soon.

[1] Someone with an existing Gmail account needs to invite you. This shouldn’t be too hard to organise.
[2] Like allowing more than 2 people to join in one conversation!