Thread: possible google IM?

antioco is right. innovation and ease of use wins!!

Originally Posted by cvrk3

antioco is right. innovation and ease of use wins!!

Of course. So far I only had ease of use with google services.

i dont think Google should come out with an instant messenger. How are you going to get it? By invite? AOL i think is the biggest and will stay the biggest cause it has so many users.

The only reason why the only way you can get gmail is throung an ivite is becuase they are still in beta testing. If they came out with a GIM it would be beta yes but it would be availble to everyone. Like right noe there is that ugly AIM 5.9 beta. It is nasty. I switched back to an older version.

I believe that GIM is a great feature if it is integrated into GMAIL.

For example, if you are in GMAIL writing an email, you can actually see if the person is online and you can directly send the email to that person right away and request that person to reply instantly.

or theres rumors about google moving towards an OS- if they even made a pretty DECENT messenger, some people would switch and then when it came with the new OS- and other messengers didnt work there- ppl's friends would HAVE to switch so that they could talk to their friends with a GOOGLE OS

i dont think they would plan on it being a huge success on its own, but it would be out there when the time was right if they did an OS

Actually I'd totally use this if they combine it with Hello, and have it support other IM protocols

But I think at the moment out of all the big IM applications no one has everything. MSN has a much better interface (in my opinion) but lacks the ability to post automated responses, so you have to download messsenger plus and dodge all the adware. AIM is getting a bit old and I see my AIM list decreasing everyday and my MSN list just getting bigger and bigger. Yahoo and MSN 7.0 feature "nudges" which at first seemed like a good idea, till I felt like I was having a fit with everyone nudging me the whole time. Also Yahoo and MSN 7.0 just seem so stacked with rather immature features that just clutter up my chatting.
I think Google could conceivably make a very successful IM application and the key points of usability and compatibility have already been mentioned but I think simplicity would be nice to see too. I don't think it would take to long for it to at least hold a reasonable stake in the current market.
(in my opinion)

Yahoo mail, Yahoo Messenger, Friendster

vs

Gmail, GMessenger(?), Orkut, and G-P2P

Hopefully, the messenger google would release would be compact, and have a good file transfer module.

By invite only gmail, by invite only orkut. By invite only messenger perhaps?

Automatically save webcam directly to gmail acct when user is not online would be a nice feature (makes good use of the 1 gig space).

It is called Hello. Try it out!

Well, there's always Gaim. It's not google, but it follows the naming scheme, and it's actually a really awesome program.

Never heard of Gaim before. But it sounds interesting:

Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks.

Gaim users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time.

The fact that it is compatible with a lot of instant messaging clients, makes it rather interesting. I only use msn, but if you use others this could be nice to have around.

Oh, it's great. And the best part? Tabbed Chatting!!

Originally Posted by perkinson

or theres rumors about google moving towards an OS- if they even made a pretty DECENT messenger, some people would switch and then when it came with the new OS- and other messengers didnt work there- ppl's friends would HAVE to switch so that they could talk to their friends with a GOOGLE OS

i dont think they would plan on it being a huge success on its own, but it would be out there when the time was right if they did an OS

I just found a real good article that could very well be 'the future' and Google's role in it.

OS News Enjoy

Awesome, but no good for gamers - they'd still need a local OS to handle things like graphics and physics cards.

i can previously see googles courier(if they ever have one) superior logging with googles search, google scanning ur mail and placing ads in the chat(jk)

I can already consider Googles messenger advanced logging with googles search, Google scanning your messages as well as placing advertisings in the chat.

It's very much likely we see a gm, and I wouldn't determine it strange...