Google Talk Broadcast Message

So, last night, while I was chatting away at the new Google Talk via iChat, this little Google broadcast message appeared:

Crazy! A Google broadcast message over Google Talk that was only listed as gmail.com. I tried to add this to my buddy list, hoping it was a bot (b/c when I am bored, I love messing with bots). Anyway, it wasn't and nothing happened.

Anyway, this got me thinking: Big Google Brother can broadcast to all the users in Gmail. If Google ever rejects their "don't be evil" mantra, this could be used for nefarious purposes. I don't think I've ever seen anything like this with any other chat services.

After sleeping on it, I've decided that I'm not *furious* with Google for failing to release a Mac client yet. One is supposedly in the works, and in the meantime Google Talk works with both iChat and Adium. In iChat, you can have audio chats with another person running iChat (and my guess is that this is an iChat feature; I think the Google Talk account just handles the handshake between the two or more audio chatters, and then it is passed along to another protocol). Ideally, however, I'd want a Mac client, or a Google Talk plug-in for iChat. That would rock....oh, and also, server to server connections are needed so that Google Talk can communicate with the entire Jabber sphere. Do it Google. Do it now!