There are rumors that Google will announce a new instant messenger product.
The fact is that Google has already shipped an instant messenger product called "Hello". Last night at home, I wrote a competitive analysis too long to post here, but the gist of my observation is that Hello represents Google's impressive first step towards winning the peer-to-peer market. Not the music, photo, or generic file-sharing p2p market... THE WHOLE MARKET for peer-to-peer communication... the yin to the yang of Google's centralized data store.
Posted by samuel at August 18, 2005 03:55 PMgreat, another IM standard.... as if my miranda list isn't getting long enough...
Posted by: rick at August 23, 2005 02:28 PM