I hate to post my opinions on other peoples opinions. Unfortunately I have my own strong opinions sometimes, so I’ll post them here.

Chris Pirillo from the Chris Pirillo Show and LockerGnome has mentioned he doesn’t like Google Talk. He thinks its not breaking any ground in the IM area.

While I do agree to a point, I personally think that Talk is a nice program for being a beta. Thats right, BETA, not the final version. I hope this is the first beta release and not a release candidate. I know they plan to try to get some kind of system that allows people with Talk to communicate others on other IM systems. I hope they can, as it would make the first IM client (correct me if I’m wrong) that works with all of the networks that comes from a large company not just some small developer. I think they should approach the major IM systems with a minimalist approach. I think they should allow only text communication with the other systems and all the bells and whistles with Googles system. They could tell the major IM providers that users wanting all the special features of the providers they should download the providers client. If they want to just chat or share files with their friends they could use Talk.

I like Talk being lean as it is. I only wish it had a file transfer ability. If they could add chat and file transfer from other IM networks and still keep the program lean and fast like it is now, I’d be very happy.