No One Google Talks?

A New York Times article is reporting that Google Talk has only 44,000 users, and it is all the talk of the net today. However, on the GigaOM blog, there’s an update to the post that states that 976,000 people have downloaded the app, but only 44,000 people are using it. Really? Including the GoogleTalk interface in Gmail? Is that being counted? Because I haven’t used the application itself much at all, but I have used it in my Gmail. It doesn’t sound like Gmail users are being counted in this report, and that’s more a bit unfair. What’s revolutionary about Gtalk is the integration with the mail client and I wouldn’t doubt that the majority of Gtalkers utilize the app within their Gmail.

Speaking of Gtalkers…remember that lovely, AJAX-y Gtalkr website I told you about ages ago? Well, those guys were snatched up by Google to work on the GoogleTalk program and Gtalkr was no more. As of last month, Wes and Dudley Carr, the developers behind Gtalkr, were still working on GoogleTalk. Of course now they can’t tell me anything about what they’re doing. Not even a hint. But we can speculate wildy, can’t we? Hmmm. Last thing I had posted was that they were working on integrating Libjingle into Gtalkr.  Libjingle, I was told, is a generic platform for negotiating peer-to-peer communications. Dudely had said file transfer and file sharing are common uses. And that video would be the next step after voice.  Then came the Google offer. Video? Are we talking more than your average webcam chat session? OK, geeks, fill me in. I know you’re out there. Libjingle possibilities?

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