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.
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Posted at 4:30AM on Dec 19th 2005 by beauty