A few words on Google's GTalk

GTalk is Google's instant communication program. It's light weighted fast and most popular among chatting freaks now a days. with the introduction of it, many other popular IRC's got less importance among the crowd. because Gtalk is very easy to install and operate.

Actually there are 3 different versions for GTalk,

1. Google Talk Client in Windows , written in C ,C++
2. Google Talk Gadget for all modern browsers that support Flash, and its platform independent, and works with almost all browsers with flash support
3. Google Talk Web Integrated with GMail, for all browsers that support JavaScript

i installed the GTalk client in my machine, and its working good, but over the time i felt some consistency problems with it. it shows wrong status sometimes, and it will change only when i clicked and type something in that window.

GTalk is favourite IRC among the office workers, because thats easy, integrated with orkut, light weight, and even access from a browser, but because of this reason its blocked in many offices and employees are fired by the firewalls.

Today i found a different stuff, a Javascript 2.0 Google Talk.ure JavaScript copy of Google Talk Client from izuz.net. It is considered a lot better that the one embeded with GMail. It uses the same UI of Google Talk Desktop Client, but is provided inside browsers. And it uses HTTP connections not XMPP connections, which means that it is firewall free or Websense free. Firewall or Websense may block you from using Gtalk/MSN by blocking certain ports, but it may never block port 80 or 443 (https port). So you are allowed to use your Gtalk by this pure JavaScript copy of Google Talk. and they recommends mozilla firefox than IE.