GTalk (Google Talk) has had an upgrade.
What do you get?
Well, depends how into the whole im thing.
1. File Sharing .. you get to transfer files to your peeps. Not bad at all, depending on your use of GTalk. In my bizo i can’t see much of a use, but you never know.
2. Voice Mail .. now this is interesting. I like the idea a lot, in a gimicky kind of way. It’s got potential for some funny stunts, but I can’t see it increasing our productivity in development :) heh heh.
3. Music Trends .. Hmmm. Just a specific tie into the sig line. You can get it to make your sig into the song your currently listening too. Not bad.
Under the hood there have been some subtle improvements.
- When talking with someone, in the base window, a voice bubble icon appears, instead of the (red, green, orange) circle
- Enhancements to the Sig line interface, not sure, but looks like a visual tightening of the interface
- when hovering over contacts in the base window, the window that pops up allows you access to functionality like sending files (not sure if this is brand new, might have been around for a while, but i just really looked at it
So Google has kicked it up another notch, bam. Seriously, they are doing good with this ..
My only concern is that gtalk will become overly crowded (interface-wise) like all the other im clients. Never let it be so!
Cheers,