Don’t really have much to say about Google Talk so far, as apparently nobody I know is bleeding edge enough to be using it yet. One thing that I immediately disliked: clicking the close button should close the program, not minimize it to the system tray. This is a simple concept people: the close button closes. Exit. End. Just. Fucking. Stop. I know everybody else does it, but everybody else is wrong and evil and must be destroyed. Actually, ‘dislike’ may be too mild a term. Hate hate hate hate hate.

Update: I think the main reason I never really got on the instant messaging bandwagon was the clients themselves. For the most part, they are what I call cringeware, in that they do something useful, but they also do something(s) really stupid such that you cringe every time you use them. This goes back to AIM and the really obnoxious sounds it made every time anything happened in the program. Sure, you could turn them off, but there was no alternative method of user notification. From then on, all IM clients I’ve tried have had some stupid detail that irritates me inordinately.

One thing I have to say about Google Talk is that the interface is pretty close to perfect. I’ve heard it called ugly, but that’s just Google. It’s simple and uncluttered, and that is very, very Google.