Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoDoes Gmail want to be instant messaging? New UI experiment says “yes”arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up1198arrow-down111
arrow-up1187arrow-down1external-linkDoes Gmail want to be instant messaging? New UI experiment says “yes”arstechnica.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square59fedilink
minus-squareCaptainBasculin@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up44·8 months agoGoogle Talk flashbacks anyone?
minus-squareArgentRaven@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·8 months agoGoogle Talk, Google Chat, Google Huddle… Some of them even integrated with Gmail. Seems like a dumb idea to try again, when already established chat systems that won’t vanish in a year exist.
minus-squareanlumo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·8 months agoNo love for Google Wave?
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minus-squareanlumo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·8 months agoNo, it came after Google Talk (XMPP) and was in fact based on the same protocol. The new thing it brought was live updates, so you could see other people typing, and it also had different types of content, not just text.
minus-squarestown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·8 months agoHangouts still works. I believe it’s their longest running chat app.
minus-squareCrashumbc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoReally thought they killed it many years ago.
minus-squareTelodzrum@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·8 months agoThe story’s older than that: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/
Google Talk flashbacks anyone?
Google Talk, Google Chat, Google Huddle… Some of them even integrated with Gmail.
Seems like a dumb idea to try again, when already established chat systems that won’t vanish in a year exist.
No love for Google Wave?
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No, it came after Google Talk (XMPP) and was in fact based on the same protocol. The new thing it brought was live updates, so you could see other people typing, and it also had different types of content, not just text.
Hangouts still works. I believe it’s their longest running chat app.
Really thought they killed it many years ago.
The story’s older than that:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/
Google Wave?