How to get Google Talk to work with GAIM

[giza]

Google has finally released it's own chat service: http://talk.google.com/. It uses the Jabber protocol, but is not interconnected to the other Jabber servers, so as to cut down on abuse.

If you don't want to download their client, here's how to connect in GAIM:
1. Go to add a new account, choose the "Jabber" protocol
2. Enter the username of your Gmail account as the screen name. (For me, it is "doug.muth")
3. Enter "gmail.com" for the server.
4. Enter your Gmail password in the password field
5. Make sure the checkbox for TLS is checked
6. Enter "talk.google.com" for the Connect Server.

Save your settings, and that's it! I'm on now as "doug.muth@gmail.com". Hope to be hearing from y'all!

Comments

[theottsel.livejournal.com]

Dammit, another chat service?

[giza.livejournal.com]

Eh, it uses the Jabber protocol, which is already supported by various IM clients. And it might be a stepping stone to web-based chatting and maybe a tie-in for Gmail, which I could really go for some day.

Actually, there already is a tie-in with Gmail. By default, you contact list on Google Talk is the people in your Gmail contacts list. So in theory, if a bunch of people talk to each other via Gmail and go into Gmail chat, they'll see each other there. That's a great way to build a network quickly.

[furahi.livejournal.com]

They didn't implement s2s to cut on abuse? o_0
What abuse? I've been using Jabber for 3 or 4 years now, and for a while I even ran my own jabber server and never saw any abuse o.o

The solution for that is a google transport (in case you're not familiar with Jabber, a transport is a ... 'gateway' between jabber servers and other networks).
Since it's standard xmpp it should be trivial :D I hope someone does that soon.

I'm glad a big name's finally pushing XMPP/Jabber. As much as I hate Microsoft I always thought they'd go for jabber eventually, since they're pusihng XML for everything, so why not in IM? (why not? 'cause they're Microsoft, that's why)