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Story: Google Talk gets mixed reception

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Hi,

There's allot of comment on the new GTalk. About the Gmail account and the lack of features.
I think GTalk is just perfect and can grow out to be the user-friendliest IM around.
-The major IM's (MSN,ICQ,Yahoo,ect) don't support Jabber protocol; thats why they can permit users [B]not[/B] to have [I]their[/I] email account: they don't lose there users to other IM's, because 'all my friends' have a there steady major IM and can't switch.
With GTalk you can choose to use their IM as your main IM, but you can switch IM(trillian,ect) and still talk to everybody. To keep their users with Google, they ask you to have an email account; hoping you will choose more and more google-products as your main source for ... everything.

The lack of features is probably the best move... let the community build it. Google provides a solid basis for a personalized IM with features you actually want. Though time Google will hopefully give more basic features(grouptalk,video,searchbox,...), but because it is open-source I hope to see allot of nice extensions for GTalk.

Depending on popularity GTalk could grow big; or at least give a fresh clean basic alternative to big budget Hollywood IM's like the lot of them.

Dave Ramiro
Rotterdam Holland

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