Jingle Bells on Google Talk
Google's approach build up Jabber into a more effective development platform will be welcomed by many small players. There is no SIP here however Google's approach could quickly create some PSTN interconnect solutions. Eg Asterisk plus... That may be part of their bet.
Finally some evolution. Google announced their Libjingle program this week. In a world in which IM texting is a commodity and voice apparently close to a defacto listening standard (with GIPS currently) the time is coming where these platforms must compete on other attributes and capabilities. I'm travelling and so haven't looked too deeply at the implications of the GoogleTalk API. Two links provide some further discussion. See The Steinhorn Stare and Kevin Smith's Doomed. So far it appears Google is doing nothing to enable the devices market. See also Neil's World.
Libjingle is a set of components provided by Google to interoperate with Google Talk's peer-to-peer and voice calling capabilities. The package includes source code for Google's implementation of Jingle and Jingle-Audio, two proposed extensions to the XMPP standard that are currently available in experimental draft form. Google Talk LibJingle Code and API
Google's approach to build up Jabber into a more effective development platform will be welcomed by many small players. There is no SIP here, however Google's approach could quickly create some PSTN interconnect solutions. Eg Asterix plus... That may be part of their bet.
Will it make any difference to Google Talk? Not in the short term. GoogleTalk misses too much in functionality to make it a useful daily client. Its also failed to deal with the encryption issue or lack of it. Similarly, GoogleTalk isn't thinking about how users communcation skills are developing and apprarently not yet working on the devices market.
Then again... giving away control at the UI end may just open up new opportunities for Google. I expect it will. Imagine calling in media objects to Google/IG. Its more, its progress and still has a very long way to go.
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...(with Gips currently)...
Is this am implication that something will replace Gips or am I reading this wrong?
Thanks.
Posted by: Rick | December 23, 2005 06:23 AM