My Comcast cable internet seems to be running at about 6 megabits now. I swear it was around 3 megabits before. Must be to compete with Verizon FIOS. How about bumping my upload rate now Comcast? Then I’d have a reason to cancel my DSL.
I am in a hotel in Seattle (starting a new job tomorrow, more on that later) and I flick on the tv and I just catch the end of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. on the Real Time with Bill Maher show on HBO.
Anyone have a recording of this so I can see the entire thing?
Randy rants a bit about the new google instant messenger. I agree with most of what he wrote, but I think there are some misunderstandings here:
1) Google has done a bit more than just using a open-source/open-protocol software, they’ve added audio on top of jabber. I haven’t dug into the packets yet but I can envision a few things happening soon: Google opening up jabber s2s (server to server) connections and third party apps implementing audio chat.
2) Jabber has the same degree of openess for attacks and spam bots that AOL AIM has. That is until Google publishes or adds a user directory (which I don’t think is going to happen anytime soon).
No, google hasn’t invented or revinented the wheel– but we have to remember this is beta. Google’s got more coming down the pipe for this product and it will be more than just advertisments. Today I have 8 instant messaging accounts online, in the future I see one jabber ID to rule them all.
With the launch of google talk this evening I now have 8 instant messenger handles online*. I can’t tell you how nice Adium is, handling all of these accounts. It does it in one window, supports encryption, and most importantly you can map 2 or more “buddies” onto each other. So Jim on AIM and Jim on ICQ can appear as one person.
*Not to mention two IRC sessions…