February 6th, 2006 | by Bob Day | published in Google Talk
We have some exciting changes in store for Gmail and Google Talk this week. If you haven’t seen the latest changes you Gmail, you can read about them on Jon’s post to the Google Blog. The features will be appearing in Gmail accounts starting today.With…
January 20th, 2006 | by Ana | published in Google Talk
A few months ago, I found myself in the most unexpected of places. Iraq. That’s right, Iraq. For a friend’s wedding. I was there for a week, and managed to make some really good friends. The bride’s family, our driver, our translator, etc. We went jo…
January 17th, 2006 | by Gary Burd | published in Google Talk
I flipped the switch to connect the Google Talk Service to the public XMPP network this morning. Google Talk users can now chat with users on other XMPP services and vice versa.If you want to connect your service to the Google Talk Service, you should …
January 17th, 2006 | by Gary Burd | published in Google Talk
It rained for 27 straight days here at Google Talk World Headquarters in Kirkland, WA. We had a nice day yesterday, but it’s raining again today. When people say that the winters are wet in the Pacific Northwest, they are not kidding.Gary BurdSoftware …
January 12th, 2006 | by Mary Himinkool | published in Google Talk
I was at CES last week with the Google Talk team and several people asked me if Google Talk would be available on cell phones and other mobile devices. I said absolutely, since that’s one of the goals of the open platform on which we built Google Talk….
January 4th, 2006 | by Mike Jazayeri | published in Google Talk
Hope you had a great holiday season Talk fans!If you are planning to attend CES this week, drop by the Google Talk booth and say hello! We are located in the Google booth (#36232 in South Hall 4 of the Las Vegas Convention Center).We will have some coo…
December 19th, 2005 | by Mike Jazayeri | published in Google Talk
I’ve been following all the buzz over the weekend in the blogosphere about the Libjingle release. You can check it out for yourself using Google Blog Search.I’m very pleased with all the excitement about what this technology can enable. However, when I…
December 15th, 2005 | by Sean Egan | published in Google Talk
For me, the most exciting thing about working on Google Talk is having the opportunity to help develop an instant messaging network based on open standards. By using XMPP, an open standard protocol, we give Google Talk users the choice of what client t…
December 12th, 2005 | by Reza Behforooz | published in Google Talk
A few nights ago, some of us from the Kirkland Googleplex went to see the funny Googlewhack Adventures playing in Seattle.The next night, when Jonas (a teammate with a very unique 19 letter GMail ID!) sent me an IM, I was pretty sure that our names tog…
December 6th, 2005 | by Scott Ludwig | published in Google Talk
We’re big believers in the future of real-time communications on the Internet. It’s only a question of when, not if, all our communications (whether in front of a computer or on the go) are done using Internet-based communications services.However, old…
November 27th, 2005 | by Mike Jazayeri | published in Google Talk
There are a lot of exciting things in store for Google Talk in the coming months and we thought the best way to tell you about them was to create a blog. We’ll keep you posted on new features, happenings in the community, and progress towards our goal …