On the plus side, the VoIP integration is good. (Rather than strain your eyes, I'll decode the above for you: it says that Clint sent me a message, first "same" and then "I was using Adium at home.") Advertisement In the meantime, however, this is all you get, because the client does not provide a built-in way to see your chat history. %2Fprotocol%2Fchatstates%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fcli%3Amessage%3EĪs you can see, that's a format appropriate for a URL, which leads us to believe that the log files may eventually be sent to Gmail for storage. Here's a bit of conversation between Clint and myself, as represented in the log file (breaks inserted for formatting purposes): In fact, the logs generated by the client are difficult to visually parse because they are URL encoded. It doesn't save your chat history to the Gmail cluster, as I had hoped. Sure, it shows you when you have new e-mail, and even lets you search your e-mail from within the client, but that's it. However, that's just about where the integration ends. It does leverage the Gmail userbase for account access, so if you have a Gmail account, all you need is to download the client. Underwhelming is the word of the day, and this client has a long way to go if it's going to impress those of us who live and die by instant messenger (e.g., me). If whiz-bang is what you're looking for, don't look at Google Talk. In the meantime, any client with XMPP specs should be golden. Mac OS X and Linux support are planned for the future. To make matters worse, Google only provides a Windows client, but as you can see there are other options for the moment. Indeed, curiously, some of us up in the Orbiting HQ can connect to the GT network using GAIM, but not Google's own client. Google Talk does, in fact, use Jabber, and we're having success here in the Labs getting on to GT with GAIM, Trillian, iChat, and even Adium. Want to send a file? Pshaw! Want to have a group chat? You're too social! Want to view your previous chat sessions easily? Get outta here! Want little emoticons? Skins? Go bug somebody else! Google Talk is Spartan in the way that the Lacedemonians were Spartan: it seems ancient! It's also absent almost every feature found in other IM clients. Welcome to the Stone Age of instant messaging! If this ever picks up, clients like Trillian won't have a problem to add it.īut you can say bye to Skype, ICQ, MSN/FB and other useful protocols and also WhatsApp or telegram, which are not really interesting in allowing third-party apps like Trillian to API their servers.Google Talk has launched, and I'll give you my mini-review right now. Yet another attempt at creating a global decentralized IM service. Jabber and XMPP might be a thing of the past, unless we get back to a golden era of protocol-exchange like in the past, like the guys at are working in. The use of custom widgets, from location to photo galleries, contacts, etc, drifted away from the XMPP standards of communication once laid out. This is not Trillians fault, but rather how messaging evolved. It's true that any hangouts conversations started in other devices running hangouts won't be reflected in the Trillian log/chat window, which is a bummer.Įver since Whatsapp, every IM out there started federating closed their protocols, so the existence of Trillian is becoming less and less relevant. Additionally, is set to notify over emails I receive from Office/Gmail, plus, It's somewhat still useful to read tweets from people you follow in messenger toasts. Trillian is still running in my computer as a hangouts/GoogleTalk client.
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