Talk.google.com is live right now.
The thing that I’m wondering—now that it seems pretty clear that both Yahoo! and Google are busy building internet-based application platforms, otherwise known as operating systems—is does this mean that the legendary thin client is, at long last, in sight?
(thanks to esinclair for the heads-up)
So are you on the service? If you don’t have my address, well, I typed it into the comment info. :)
I think the legendary thin client is not only in sight but I think for all intents and purposes it’s here. Look at something like Google Maps - it’s better than a lot of desktop mapping apps, in terms of its interface and responsiveness. They haven’t tied it all together into an OS, but I don’t think that’s necessary. They’ve already proven that almost anything you can do in a local client you can now also do through a web page.
(I did say almost - obviously, or there’d be no Picasa, or Jabber, or whatever.)
Psst, wanna buy a cheap network appliance?