Google Talk [ New IM ]

[Suney]

http://www.google.com/talk/

GO!GO!GO!GO!

Been talking my friends all around auckland and hamiltr0n and the voice quality is really clear!

It lacks the cool features like emoticons and smileys though, maybe it'll be in the next version?

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/interne...eut/index.html

[Hitcher]

http://www.google.com/talk/

GO!GO!GO!GO!

Been talking my friends all around auckland and hamiltr0n and the voice quality is really clear!

It lacks the cool features like emoticons and smileys though, maybe it'll be in the next version?

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/interne...eut/index.html

Emoticons and smileys, "cool features"? They're devices designed for the illiterate to communicate in a text-based world. Why on earth would you need them or anything like them in a speech-based world?

Better to design strings of verbage so that the mumblingly incoherent grunters can participate in mind-numblingly facile conversations:

"Wow man, I was like wow, you know."
"Yeah man, she was like hard on to me."
"Faaaark. You are like so right."

[Suney]

Emoticons and smileys, "cool features"? They're devices designed for the illiterate to communicate in a text-based world. Why on earth would you need them or anything like them in a speech-based world?

Of course we need them so i can at you