Google’s made an announcement about their Google Talk and Open Communications. Will this allow you to chat with MSN Messenger users from Google Talk? nope. AOL Instant Messenger?
Uh uh. Sorry. However, any network that uses the open XMPP protocol will work for ya. Which, frankly, isn’t a huge number…
We currently support open federation with any service provider that supports the industry standard XMPP protocol. This includes Earthlink, Gizmo Project, Tiscali, Netease, Chikka, MediaRing, and thousands of other ISPs, universities, corporations and individual users.
Is this truly huge news? Not really. I’ve been using a jabber client for months to talk on google talk. This is just more of the same, but in a different direction. But I definitely see it as a step in the right direction!
Seriously, I use Gaim to allow me to run one client and connect with folks on multiple IM networks. Which really shouldn’t be necessary… the knuckleheads at MSN, AOL and Yahoo! really needn’t be so proprietery with chat.. What do they gain? Most “reasonably bright” folks immediately disable their little start pages and such dreck anyways. I can’t believe the ad revenue is huge from chat clients — but maybe I’m wrong? Ah well, meanwhile, I’ll stick with Gaim.
[reminds me, I need to find an multi-protocol client for the Pocket PC some day...]
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January 17th, 2006 
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