Quick follow up.
“We are going to try to be the first in the world to connect everyone to everyone,” says Georges Harik, director of Googlettes – the Silicon Valley company’s new products division.
The new messaging and internet phone service, called Google Talk, is designed to break down the walls between different instant messaging systems. Normally, these services these only let users chat with others on the same network.
According to Harik, Google Talk will connect users of different instant messaging services using software packages – called Jabber and Trillion – which are designed to act as a cyber switchboard.
This capability has the potential to make instant messaging as interoperable as email or regular telephone services, allowing anyone to contact anyone else with an account or a phone, says Harik.
So Google, what are we going to do tonight?
Narf.
(via newscientists)
