VoIP and IM
December 7th, 2005
I have decided to download Gizmo and try it instead of Skype. It uses SIP which means you can communicate with people using GoogleTalk or GAIM. Woot!
Once I got thinking about standards I began feeling bad because I do not have GoogleTalk anymore. The free version of Trillian does not support Jabber and I did not like having to deal with having two chat clients. I might have to try GAIM again. When I got back to school this year I tried it, but found a few things that bugged me and have not looked at it since.
In my search for a better client I found Meebo. Meebo is an Ajax based browser client! You can connect to AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, and Jabber! It is very nifty and I recommend it to anyone who wants to chat with their friends on another computer without having to install a client.
If you know of any other clients I should look at please let me know.
1 Response to “VoIP and IM”
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December 8th, 2005 at 01:14 AM
Gizmo is pretty sweet.
Gaim is awesome, but it won’t have SIP support until version 2.0 comes out. It’s all in CVS, so you can try it if you’re brave. (But a lot of stuff is currently broken; it’s pretty ugly now.) Theoretically all the functionality has been written, it just needs to get integrated with the trunk.
That’s really ironic that the free Trillian client can connect to all the non-open networks but not the open one. How lame is that? I mean, Jabber’s just XML over a socket. I could write a Ruby client in like an hour, but you have to pay to get it in Trillian?