Was doing a bit of geeking last night and noticed nearly everything I was doing was in the browser. More specifically I was using Facebook chat and gmail chat.
It's quite sad as I always expected the last few web applications which I'd never use in a browser would be email (which I still don't), RSS Reader (which I now use Google Reader for), and instant messaging.
I still use Skype, though I wonder if this may soon get overtaken by gmail chat's video feature.
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I am totally sold on gmail's interface, and email thread/conversation system. And if you are comfortable with it, its not hard to have gmail host your email and give you all the webmail functionality of gmail.
I used to use desktop email clients, but now prefer gmail browser based.
And check out http://www.google.com/talk/about.html - Skype is going to get a run for its money I think.
Have you used Nimbuzz or any of the other iPhone based IM/VoIP integrators? Runs all the different chat programs within one place. Would be cool if there was something that did that with email, IM chat, and voice. I think that is where Google will take Google Talk, and its where Skype has tried to take their Talk/IM/SMS in v4.0
Ya, I use gTalk on Windows machines, but iChat on Mac. Interesting interface for gTalk, I'm not 100% sure I "get" it but always interesting to see how Google doesn't always stick to the traditional desktop paradigm
I think the only thing gmail had to offer me (originally) was the search, and now I'm on a Mac, Apple's mail.app's search more than makes up for it.
The lack of folders really irks me on gmail. The tagging system doesn't really scale once it gets to a certain size.
As for email from anywhere, my email is all IMAP, with a web interface in case I'm not near an IMAP client (work, home and iPhone more than covers it :) )
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