The Good News:
Google’s answer to Yahoo Messenger and MS Messenger, Google Talk is out.
The Bad News:
You have to have a Gmail account to use it.
The Good News:
Those are publicly and freely available now.
The Bad News
They are only publicly and freely available for mobile phones.
The Good News:
I’ll give you an invitation to Gmail FREE, just for the asking. Comment if you want one.
The Bad News:
The Google Talk installer uninstalls the rather nifty gmail notifier program.
The Good News:
It replaces it with an even niftier notifier integrated into Google Talk.
The Bad News:
I’ve only got 45 gmail invitations to give away.
The Good News:
Google Talk has voice chat.
The Bad News:
You can only have voice chat with one person at a time on Google Talk.
The Good News:
Google Talk doesn’t have real time, as-you-type context sensitive ads.
The Bad News:
Google Talk probably WILL have them. Soon.
I’ve got ~30 invites. Hit me up at zamoose -AT- gmail -DOT- com if you’d like one.
I also have a bum-load of gmail invites kicking around if anyone’s interested.
Hey now, I have you on my RSS reader for your great witty political viewpoints.
But now you’ve gone and done invaded my turf – I blog about VoIP! ; )
(see my Google Talk test drive here:
Google Talk Test Drive
I’ve got close to 250 invites to give away if everyone else runs out …
I signed up today. I did a google search for “gmail sign up” and got a link for the regular sign up page. No invites or nuthin’.
Ron
Yeah, sure. Hit me up
When accepting one of many invitations, accept the one with the most cachet.
But what the Hell, I’ll take yours.
I would love an invite please!
Send me one please.
My I have an invite please?
I would enjoy a g-mail invite! You rock!
I would like an invite also. Thanks!
Of course, you know that Google will archive all of your chats with your email and make them openly searchable by the entire world.
All your base is belong to Google.
Spacemonkey, I will come to the rescue, I have all 50 invites left, so if you need to use some of mine, you are more than welcomed to do so.
The Bad News:
Google Talk is Windows-only.
The Good News:
Google Talk uses Jabber, so it can be connected to with Free clients such as gaim.
The Bad News:
Google still won’t write software for any platform other than Windows, despite the fact that its servers run Linux.
Well, since my crummy email account is apparently incapable of handling the two audio bits you’ve been trying to send me, I suppose I could use a g-mail account…
Thank you! 🙂
The good news : Google can get away with coding for Win* because that is their biggest user base
The bad news : They are still too damned “blue”.
/TJ
… I also have a crapload of invites if anyone still needs one.
I have no friends, significant others or anyone I can really count on in the world, so I suppose I could use a gmail.
Oh God–I’m so alone! 😛
Yay spacemonkey!
francesco [dot] poli2 [at] gmail [dot] com
:-p
i would love a gmail invite. i promise to make you proud if you send me one.
i love you (whoever sends me invite)
tony-the-pony@hotmail.com
I’d love one too Spacemonkey.
Can I have a Gmail account please? Pretty please, with sugar on top?
Kick me an invite if you would please.
The Good News:
If you use Mozilla Firefox (and you really ought to) there is a better Gmail Notifier available as an extension. Sweet!
i didn’t have notifier installed before, so i now have this nifty notifier. do i have to be logged into google talk to see the notifier, though?
also, if you need more invites, i have 50.
Now I can finally replace my decrepid old e-mail. 🙂 Please send an invite. uru@senshi-mail.zzn.com
Thanks.
I would like one please!