{"id":715,"date":"2005-08-24T19:24:40","date_gmt":"2005-08-24T22:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=715"},"modified":"2005-08-24T21:43:07","modified_gmt":"2005-08-25T00:43:07","slug":"speculation-galore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=715","title":{"rendered":"Speculation galore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>here&#8217;s both <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.scripting.com\/2005\/08\/24#When:11:11:37AM\">dismissive<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tribeworks.com\/home\/vibe.asp\">speculative<\/a> talk abound about Google Talk, <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2005\/TECH\/internet\/08\/24\/google.messaging.reut\/index.html\">Google&#8217;s IM and VoIP application for Windows<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>The point of the Google talk isn&#8217;t all about &#8216;another IM contender or so&#8217;, &#8216;evil empire&#8217; or &#8216;Skype is next&#8217;. Nope: Google supports the Jabber protocol. People who followed the IM scuffle in the early 2000s may remember how MSN, Yahoo and AOL tried to work together on a protocol to offer as a standard to the IETF. This effort failed and all parties decided to go on with their own business to keep their protocol or network <em>closed<\/em>. With Google backing Jabber, it wouldn&#8217;t surprise me that the Jabber protocol finally gets the acceptance it deserves. That&#8217;s the important message of today&#8217;s release of Google Talk. I mean, why would you want to hang around a closed IM format?\n<\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s actual VoIP implementation is not bad. It&#8217;s easier to set up than other implementation and seems to work right after plugging the microphone in. Now, if only they had clients supporting platforms like Linux and Apple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s both dismissive and speculative talk abound about Google Talk, Google&#8217;s IM and VoIP application for Windows. The point of the Google talk isn&#8217;t all about &#8216;another IM contender or so&#8217;, &#8216;evil empire&#8217; or &#8216;Skype is next&#8217;. Nope: Google supports &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=715\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}