Well, it’s here. And it’s somewhat exciting. The client application is simple, small, and really disappointing. I expected more. But it’s Jabber, so I can use my favorite Jabber client.
So what’s the big todo? In three word: bye bye YIM. YIM is annoying, YIM eats memory but only talks one protocol, and every so often Yahoo “upgrades” it and breaks Trillian. I’ve been wanting to dump it forever. GIM will make it easy to convience my non-techie friends to switch over. They all use GMail anyway.
If there’s a lesson here, its very simple: don’t put ads between you service and your user base. You’re just asking them to switch.
link: http://mail.google.com/mail/talk/download
tags: google im