Tim Wang's eLearning Blog

From GMail to GTalk? Lead by Georges Harik, Google recently launched the new product - Google Talk! What is it targeting? Instance Messaging market of course! When Google announced the 1G mail box, nobody expected the global Gmail registration fever. Now they are squeezing themselves into the crowded IM industry. According to the recent statistics, among the IM providers, AOL has 41.6 million members, Yahoo Messenger has 19.1 million and MSN has 14.1 users. However, there are constantly new IM products and service providers being established constantly. One of the well known is Skype. We have used the tool in our collaborated Pachyderm project developments many times and the quality was great. Skype is taking the market by its unique digital voice compression and IP to Phone features. Google Talk is certainly seeing this as a good idea to compete with the existing IM giants. The program is less than 1M and you can download it at: http://www.google.com/talk/. Since it is from Google, I'd say give it a try!