August 25, 2005
Great Googley Goo Goo!: Good News/Bad News
Posted by spacemonkey at 04:29 PM | View blog reactions | Comments (28)

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.