‘nuff said.

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Many people were disappointed with Google Talk. There was an expectation that Google was going to redefine this sector of the internet as they have done with so many others. Alas, it was not meant to be. Although, if they’re master plan calls for the other three major IM players to break down their walls and allows IM to enter the real mainstream by enabling users to converse with anyone across the networks, then perhaps this was the plan all along. After all if they had just wiped the floor with Yahoo, AOL, and Microsoft, the chances of those big 3 sitting down at the bargaining table might be much less than it is right now.

But that was not really my point in any case. I tried to like Google Talk, I really did. I read Steve Gillmor’s nicely surrealistic post about how it made his PC feel like a Mac, but it just did not work for me.

Then this happened. I tried sending a link from Adium:

and this is what showed up on Google Talk:

So, this nice simple Google IM app cannot understand a link tag? If I cannot even send a link to a GTalk user, it really is quite useless.

Update: Yes, Google Talk can indeed display URL’s as links, as you can see here:

However, that simply is not good enough when every modern IM client makes it super easy for even the novice to send a link as a link to someone. ahref is NOT that complicated and the fact that the Google guys left it out leads me to believe that they are not really using this (or at least not the public version of the tool) for work, as was claimed.

My folks picked me up a new Swatch watch to replace the broken one I stopped wearing months ago. It even has a nice leather band, which means I have to remember to take it off before the shower!