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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kamikaze on August 23, 2005, 10:55:09 pm

Title: Googlization.
Post by: Kamikaze on August 23, 2005, 10:55:09 pm

http://www.google.com/talk/

It's so cool that they're using the Jabber protocol. :D

Title: Googlization.
Post by: Kamikaze on August 24, 2005, 12:44:40 am

Turns out Google's been hiding some easter eggs (http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=159894&cid=13386383) in this too. On Google Talk add [email protected] and message it "play" to play Hunt the Wumpus. :D

Title: Googlization.
Post by: aldo_14 on August 24, 2005, 06:50:14 am

hehe.

Wumpus.


I must get round to programming that sometime.

Title: Googlization.
Post by: vyper on August 24, 2005, 11:09:19 am

lionrampant @ gmail.com for anyone who cares.

Title: Googlization.
Post by: vyper on August 24, 2005, 12:54:50 pm

Question- can anyone connect to this using trillian?

Title: Googlization.
Post by: Kamikaze on August 24, 2005, 01:34:44 pm

There are people who have. I've heard the free version of trillian doesn't support Jabber though.

Try this /. post: http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=159894&cid=13384601

Title: Googlization.
Post by: vyper on August 24, 2005, 01:43:25 pm

Odd, it appears to be working despite everything.

Title: Googlization.
Post by: EtherShock on August 24, 2005, 02:04:04 pm

It doesn't work for me. The plugins are for Pro. u_u Do you have Pro?

Title: Googlization.
Post by: Kamikaze on August 24, 2005, 03:35:21 pm

Google Talk works with Gaim easily and it should support all protocols Trillian does. You put your username (without gmail.com) and server as gmail.com. Connect server is talk.google.com.

Title: Googlization.
Post by: vyper on August 24, 2005, 05:31:52 pm

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Originally posted by EtherShock
It doesn't work for me. The plugins are for Pro. u_u Do you have Pro?

/me has pro

Title: Googlization.
Post by: mikhael on August 24, 2005, 07:09:03 pm

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Originally posted by Kamikaze
Turns out Google's been hiding some easter eggs (http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=159894&cid=13386383) in this too. On Google Talk add [email protected] and message it "play" to play Hunt the Wumpus. :D

TYPE HUNT TO PLAY HUNT!


Bugger me, that was one of the most annoying parts of my uni days. O.o

Title: Googlization.
Post by: EtherShock on August 24, 2005, 08:19:51 pm

I have basic Kamikaze. That's why it doesn't work, cause I'm too cheap to pay for Trillian Pro.

Title: Googlization.
Post by: Kamikaze on August 24, 2005, 08:28:01 pm

You could try using Gaim (http://gaim.sourceforge.net). Or just use the official client.

By the way, there's a Google Talk help page (http://www.google.com/support/talk) that lists how to connect with 3rd party clients. Such as Trillian pro (http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?answer=24077&topic=1415).

Title: Googlization.
Post by: vyper on August 25, 2005, 10:46:47 am

I'm not sure how long that client of theirs is going to be around. It does all manner of registry modification just to minimize to tray. Sounds like typical google spying.

Title: Googlization.
Post by: Kamikaze on August 25, 2005, 01:41:19 pm

Check their privacy policy. They specifically state they do not log any conversations you have.

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From Google's privacy policy:

We delete all personally identifiable information from our logs after a period of time reasonably necessary to do so. We do not store any of the content of your text or voice communications in our logs.

Title: Googlization.
Post by: vyper on August 25, 2005, 02:09:35 pm

Hmm...

Title: Googlization.
Post by: aldo_14 on August 25, 2005, 04:59:41 pm

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Originally posted by Kamikaze
Check their privacy policy. They specifically state they do not log any conversations you have.

 

They don't store any info in their logs.........

Dum dum DUM!

Title: Googlization.
Post by: Sandwich on August 28, 2005, 04:34:07 am

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20050828

LMAO!