{"id":3559,"date":"2005-08-26T01:52:06","date_gmt":"2005-08-26T01:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=3559"},"modified":"2005-08-26T01:52:06","modified_gmt":"2005-08-26T01:52:06","slug":"google-unifying-instant-messaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2005\/08\/google-unifying-instant-messaging\/","title":{"rendered":"Google: Unifying Instant Messaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/mt-archives\/004381.php\">follow up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blocked\">&#8220;We are going to try to be the first in the world to connect everyone to everyone,&#8221; says Georges Harik, director of Googlettes \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the Silicon Valley company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new products division.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>According to Harik, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn7899\" class=\"external external_icon\">Google Talk will connect users of different instant messaging services using software packages <\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u201c called Jabber and Trillion \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which are designed to act as a cyber switchboard.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So Google, what are we going to do tonight?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retrojunk.com\/details_tvshows\/217-pinky-and-the-brain\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">Narf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn7899\" class=\"external external_icon\">newscientists<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick follow up. &#8220;We are going to try to be the first in the world to connect everyone to everyone,&#8221; says Georges Harik, director of Googlettes \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the Silicon Valley company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new products division. The new messaging and internet phone service, called Google Talk, is designed to break down the walls between different instant messaging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-fied","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}