Google Talk's open standard has been appropriated in an unexpected way: Mercora, the peer-to-peer collaborative streaming network, now offers a Google Talk on-ramp to the community. The main benefits seem to be a single sign in for both Google Talk IM and Mercora listening, and the ability to bulk-invite all of one's Google Talk friends to Mercora participation. This is actually a pretty good way of easily setting up small listening-sharing groups, starting with the Google Talk invite system and extending seamlessly into Mercora.
Mercora Hooks Into Google Talk
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(Page 1)5. Hi -- I'm new to this weblog.
We have been using another gtalk plug-in named "Festoon" for a month or so -- it's mostly used for video conferencing, but we've been using it to stream audio and video after hours. Big advantage -- everything is bidirectional. It works well - but you should decide for yourself.
Thanks for letting me share.
Posted at 8:52PM on Dec 27th 2005 by Darren Hawes
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Posted at 4:42AM on Dec 19th 2005 by beauty