A skin to make Yahoo! Messenger look like Google Talk.
Run the install and change your skin in Messenger > Change Skin…
Download: gtalk-yahooskin.exe
Source: Shift This
Firm says telephony service Google Talk uses patented VoIP technology
The Times of India
Sunday, January 1, 2006
New York — A small New York technology firm said on Sunday that it was suing search titan Google for up to $5 billion dollars for patent violation in the Internet telephony software used in Google Talk.
Jerry Weinberger, chief executive of Rates Technology Inc (RTI), said he was the inventor of software programming that allows telephone calls to be placed over the Internet.
He said 120 companies, including Lucent, Cisco, IBM, Yahoo and Microsoft, have paid RTI to use the technology for “Voice over Internet Protocol” (VoIP) calls.
RTI filed suit in a Long Island federal court against Google two months ago because the search engine was using the technology without authorisation, Weinberger said after the New York Post reported the lawsuit on Sunday.
“They told us to go to hell,” the RTI boss said. “They are the most arrogant company in the world.”
Weinberger alleged that Google has abused two patented RTI software programs in Google Talk, which enables users to talk through a computer headset or to instant message each other for free.
He said Google could be liable for damages of up to $5 billion in a trial, unless it settles the complaint out of court.
Google did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
But a spokesman for the company quoted by the New York Post dismissed the lawsuit as “without merit” and said Google “will defend against it vigorously”.
If someone did miss this funny interview by Philipp Lenssen foretelling Google’s future for the year 2038, i guess you should spare some time to read it. I think even Larry had a good time reading it.
here is the link: A Talk to Google’s Larry Page in 2038
Was out of the confusion wheather the site was banned or in the sandbox untill monday(15th Dec).
Saw the site getting indexed finally. You can see the google index.
To understand what sandbox is, here is a good article by 14th colony.
Now its only a matter of time to take some top positions in Google 
About.com blogs which pull millions of users across the internet in various topics was using Movable Type untill now and is moving all its blogs to wordpress platform. This clearly shows how well wordpress is growing and as Big guns like Yahoo & About use wordpress they build trust for people looking for a blogging platform.
Matt mentions it in his blog. Everyone is happy about it. Only google is left back among the big guns to try wordpress officially. Google already having their own platform for blogging(blogger), will be hard to convince for trying wordpress for their official blogs. Anyway, i’ll bring google and wordpress together with my google logos blog which I am working on.
The Referral system started with Google a while back. And then Google Introduced Firefox Referrals which didnt allow the feature to be used by internation users. But they finally allowed the system internationally. But the referral images were all in white color. A few days back some colour image options were introduced. Not so impressive but yes they might help some colorful blogs and sites.
But ultimately they have to make the referrals colour-free and the colour options to the users.
These are the added ones:
For Google its a tradition to have a blog for each of its products and keep its world wide users and the press updated via these blogs. Here you go:
Google Talk – googletalk.blogspot.com
Google Base – googlebase.blogspot.com
Google Reader – googlereader.blogspot.com
Google Sitemaps – sitemaps.blogspot.com
Google Video – googlevideo.blogspot.com
Google Adsense – adsense.blogspot.com
Google Adwords – adwords.blogspot.com
Adwords API – adwordsapi.blogspot.com
Google Desktop – googledesktop.blogspot.com
Blogger Buzz – buzz.blogger.com
Official Google Blog – googleblog.blogspot.com
There is one place to read all these blogs: Googleblogs’s digest
Have a Nice time everybody!
I always wonder how quick things comeup for nice tools. There is a community for every google product and for google talk too.
The following are Google Talk Communities:
Spread Google Talk : 
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Google Talk Community: 
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GTalk Profile: 
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Google Habla: 
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GTalkr – Google Talk in Flash: 
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Google Talk About – Official Product Blog: 
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You can find them here: Google Talk Skins
Darren Rowse buys a house, Rick Blythe buys a brand new car with his blogging earnings and see what Eric Giguere buys for himself. Well, Eric, same here…