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Google Talk, Labs edition

Published by Esteban on April 10th, 2008 | This post lacks all category except for: Uncategorized

So, After reading about it @ uberbin I decided to download Google Talk labs edition. Besides a perked up interface there are some really nice features. If only I were able to move my corporate IT infrastructure out of the corporate IT infrastructure Google Talk and a Browser would be almost everything I’d need up and running for most of my tasks. (Well that and EditPlus and a couple of Notepad instances which I use all the time to write down… notes)

From within Google Talk labs edition you can launch gmail (nothing new in that), Calendar and Orkut (too bad no one outside Brazil seems to use even know Orkut). You can get Calendar updates and alerts as well as notifications from Orkut. You can also set Gmail as the default mail client for the PC. I was tempted, I would give up a limb or two to get rid of Lotus Notes.

I’ve always been fond to Google Talk, the simplicity of the interface contrasts quite nicely with the information overload that other IM systems seem to have (MSN and Yahoo!, for instance).

A couple of things missing: Voice functionality has been hosed in this edition. Also being able to access Google docs or getting alerts when others start editing shared documents would be nice. Picasa and YouTube integration might be interesting as well. I could picture the ability to embed videos or pictures in a Chat being a very interesting new way of wasting even more time.

Pardon the blurring out of my contact’s info on the screenshot, although I’m sure my contacts appreciate it!

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