Comments on: Tomorrow’s News, Today: Google Talk

By: sogrady

sogrady — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 21:45:27 +0000

looks like they have plans to address your complaint, Simon:

http://www.eightypercent.net/Archive/2005/08/31.html#a253

http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/jdev/2005-August/021792.html

will be fun to watch.

By: Simon Phipps

Simon Phipps — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:55:32 +0000

Seems there’s no Jabber networking supported - only users on @gmail.com can be reached. It would have been really interesting if there had been, but as it is it’s just another attempt to capture eyeballs…

By: sogrady

sogrady — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:07:32 +0000

hmmm…dunno what the problem could be. i couldn’t connect initally as i’d just done the username/pwd bit, but once i plugged in the talk.google.com bit i was fine.

from the page here (http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?answer=24073), have you set the following up?

# Jabber Options: Check the box next to ‘Use TLS if available,’ and leave the other boxes unchecked.
# Port: 5222
# Connect server: talk.google.com
# Proxy type: Use Global Proxy Settings

if so, i’m not sure what the problem might be.

By: Kent

Kent — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:41:03 +0000

What parameters do you use for connecting for Gaim? Looks like your using jabber protocol, your gmail account without the @gmail, and gmail.com as the server. I can’t get those to work. I also tried talk.google.com as the server (since that’s what gmail talk is connecting - I used TCPView) which still doesn’t work for me in Gaim.