{"id":35,"date":"2005-09-05T14:56:58","date_gmt":"2005-09-05T13:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=38"},"modified":"2005-09-05T14:56:58","modified_gmt":"2005-09-05T13:56:58","slug":"the-future-of-hello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/09\/05\/the-future-of-hello\/","title":{"rendered":"The future of Hello?"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, it’s time for me to put on both hats – as the third moderator of SpreadHello<\/tag><\/a> and as a moderator for SpreadGoogleTalk<\/tag><\/a> too, to step in and give my £0.02 worth following on from the posts from Yogarine<\/a> and Pace-man<\/a> on the SpreadHello<\/a> blog.<\/p>\n

I’m really not sure where it’s all going…..but, as Pace-Man has also pointed out<\/a> Google seem to be doing a lot of buying of similar technologies at the moment, Meetro<\/tag><\/a> is a prime example – once they expand it for use outside of the US, it could prove to be an interesting addition to GTalk \/ Hello…. wouldn’t you like to be able to chat with and share photo’s with people physically near to you?<\/p>\n

As for how to “integrate” all of these services…. that’s the tricky bit… both Hello and GoogleTalk are superb – but they’re very different….. and I’m not sure how Google could make the two interoperate without ruining both of them. I just hope it doesn’t all go the way of MSN Messenger<\/tag>. There’s a service that once was good, but has become unusable over time (for me at least) – because it’s trying to be everything to everybody….it’s bloatware<\/tag>.<\/p>\n

I like the chat and voice stuff in GTalk – it works and the interface is clean and uncluttered. I’ll be intrigued to see how they try to make money out of it – voice recognition<\/tag> and context sensitive ads<\/tag> perhaps? Now that’d be REALLY<\/i> clever!!<\/p>\n

However, I suspect that this is the next step on the way to some form of “GBrowser<\/tag>” or maybe even a “GoogOS<\/tag>“….or maybe I’m just being silly!!<\/p>\n

For an extereme version of what might be – check out the excellent flash “story” over at albinoblacksheep<\/a> good, but scary… but good….:-)<\/p>\n

All in all, I’ll be very interested to see how things progress – based on what they’ve done in the past, it should pretty impressive!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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