After all those rumors of Google coming out with an IM service, they have released Gtalk. I downloaded it and installed it and it’s pretty cool. Very clean … just like everything else Google makes and it’s connected to your Gmail account.
But, it’s only for the PC. So, if many people are going to GTalk, what about on the Mac? Well, here are instructions on how to use your GTalk account on Adium and talk with other GTalk users. Or here are instructions on how to use it on other clients.
That would be cool if everyone switched from AIM (41.6 million users) and Yahoo (19.1 million users) and MSN (14.1 million users), to Google Talk! Let’s see …
Check it out!
It’s based on the open source Jabber protocol, which already has a sizeable user base (over 10,000,000 according to a 2003 press release, which is ages ago in internet time!) and growing… OS X Server includes a Jabber service)…