How will Google innovate with Google Talk?

As many have noted Google’s IM Service is live. I read this excellent first insights by Celso and Melo. Both have been working closely with XMPP/Jabber for the last months and make some really interesting appointements / questions about the new service.

Google has been delivering great products to the Web since a few years. This services’s success is based on inovative development. The Gmail Web email application, AdSense, Google Maps and Google News to name a few.

But now Google is playing a harder game. It goes to compete with all the IM giants like Microsoft and Yahoo in their own experienced field. What will they bring us with Google Talk than can make people change their minds?

Melo suggests that it might the start of a new era of pubsub services.

And it might just be. This related article explains why Yahoo! buying Konfabulator is more than just about widgets. Charlene Li thinks that Yahoo will bring widget creation to the end user enabling it to access all the information available at Yahoo.

Google doesn’t have widgets, but they do have the information. With Google Talk they have a mass-market application capable of doing pubsub services that can retrive all this information.

This would slowly move the Web further away from the browswer. But that’s a even longer shot. For now.

August 24, 2005 | Tags:  

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One Response to “How will Google innovate with Google Talk?”

  1. bicyclemark on August 28th, 2005

    What I am skeptical of, with googletalk, is what can they offer that makes it better than Skype or even Gizmo. Both those apps… especially skype, have many satisfied users… why should we care about googletalk.

    also the windows only aspect is stupid.

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