Talk is cheap

End July Croll66 at BlackMylar.com posted a review on free internet voice chat apps. It covered Yahoo! Instant Messenger, Teamspeak 2, Skype and Gizmo.

Now a new member can be added to the family. Google launched the beta version of Google Talk. With Google Talk you can talk and instant message (IM) with ... well.... anybody. Google Talk will work closely with all the other Google gadgets you might have, including your Gmail account. In fact, Google Talk requires a Gmail username and password.

Now, I hear you thinking. Another IM program. Another voice chat app. Well, yeah. Adding to the row. I really am curious how this program will stand up against all the others. So, let's go ahead and download it. But wait...... Mmm, only Google Talk available for... for..... (can't get it out of my throat)... for...Windows!?@#? No, can't be. Let's look closer.

Ah, here we go. ' Mac and Linux users can connect too Google Talk using other IM clients', is what Google says. And they did think about that. They made the Google Talk service to support industry standards. And that's what we like at BlackMylar Europe: people who support industry standards (you here that, Bill Gates?)!

And there you have it, a list of clients we can choose from depending which OS we are using. For OSX we can choose from Adium, GAIM, iChat (of course our favorite) and Psi. Linux users can choose between GAIM and Psi.

So, it looks like it's worth giving it a try. I will hook up with Croll66 to try it out and he'll post a review on BlackMylar.com and compare Google Talk with the other apps.

And if he doesn't? Well, we don't give a damn if it harelips China.