I don’t know about the rest of the world, but the media in Australia is doing some really bad reporting of Google Talk. The stories on the news are making out like Google is the first to implement any kind of voice communication on the internet - this is obviously not true.

I am a believer in giving credit where credit is due. What about Skype? What about Project Gizmo? What about all the other VoIP and messaging applications that came before Google Talk?

I don’t think Google Talk is that big of a deal. It may be in the future, but not right now. If Google’s hope of messaging system interoperability comes to fruition, then I will be a happy man. Right now though, I don’t have much time for a messaging application that doesn’t support file transfer, group conversations, or many of the other features that I have come to depend on.