Comments on: Google Talk does not work without GMail http://www.venukb.com/2006/06/17/google-talk-does-not-work-without-gmail/ Tech News,Gadgets,Reviews,Eclipse and more Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:39:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Venu http://www.venukb.com/2006/06/17/google-talk-does-not-work-without-gmail/#comment-145 Venu Sat, 17 Jun 2006 07:13:02 +0000 http://www.venukb.com/blog/2006/06/17/google-talk-doesn%e2%80%99t-work-without-gmail/#comment-145 Yup the point is how was I able to successfully login and why was my status shown as "Available". So whoever logs in is "Available" only to themselves and not their buddies. Anway in presence you have lot of such scenarios and google guys definitely didn't consider the scenario of Gmail service being down. Also this was the first time I saw Gmail down :) Yup the point is how was I able to successfully login and why was my status shown as “Available”. So whoever logs in is “Available” only to themselves and not their buddies.

Anway in presence you have lot of such scenarios and google guys definitely didn’t consider the scenario of Gmail service being down. Also this was the first time I saw Gmail down :)

]]> By: Vasuki Raghavan http://www.venukb.com/2006/06/17/google-talk-does-not-work-without-gmail/#comment-143 Vasuki Raghavan Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:11:23 +0000 http://www.venukb.com/blog/2006/06/17/google-talk-doesn%e2%80%99t-work-without-gmail/#comment-143 Interesting! Yes, GMail and Google Talk are quite "strongly" dependent. Gmail acts more like a mail service with chat facilities and Google Talk acts like a chat service with access to your mail and contacts. And internally, they store your chat contents and your mails in an almost similar way I guess. So, basically you cannot chat as long as you cant check mails. But, the most intriguing thing is that it allowed you to login to Google Talk, which to me does not make sense! You cant chat with anyone because it would have failed to get contacts from Gmail. You cannot add a new friend also, I guess, because the invite would also internally go as a mail I guess and also it would fail to add this new friend to your Gmail contact list. Well, Google or otherwise, developers are developers! ;) Interesting!
Yes, GMail and Google Talk are quite “strongly” dependent. Gmail acts more like a mail service with chat facilities and Google Talk acts like a chat service with access to your mail and contacts.
And internally, they store your chat contents and your mails in an almost similar way I guess. So, basically you cannot chat as long as you cant check mails. But, the most intriguing thing is that it allowed you to login to Google Talk, which to me does not make sense!
You cant chat with anyone because it would have failed to get contacts from Gmail. You cannot add a new friend also, I guess, because the invite would also internally go as a mail I guess and also it would fail to add this new friend to your Gmail contact list.
Well, Google or otherwise, developers are developers! ;)

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