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Google IM based on Jabber/XMPP coming soon?
Posted by NetRyder on the 23rd August 2005 at 2:44am 6 comments

Thanks to the folks on Neowin for this tidbit.

A recent New York Times story on the Google Sidebar had an interesting side note about an annoucement Wednesday of a new “communication tool” -- could this be the much speculated Google IM?

While executives would not disclose what the tool was, it has long been speculated that Google would introduce an IM service to compete with AOL, Yahoo, and MSN, and last year the rumor mill said that Google would use the open source Jabber protocol to power its product.

Inquisitive Neowin member Tom Servo, taking a que from member CarlNewton tried to connect to talk.google.com using his Trillian client. What he got was a secure XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol, alternatively known as Jabber) server waiting for connections.

Could this be Google IM waiting to be unleashed? Since the server is using open source technology it'd be wonderful if anyone with a Jabber enabled chat client could use it (Trillian, GAIM, etc) and not just users of Google IM. While this hope is based on speculation, it does have some backing in the form of an active server.

OSNN Link News source: Neowin.net


Comment posted by Grandmaster at 3:33am on the 23rd August 2005   
This better be brilliant, cause I can't be bothered to switch if no one else on my MSN list will.
 

Reply posted by NetRyder at 3:36am on the 23rd August 2005  
Haha, even if it's brilliant, it's going to be tough to move people over.
I still haven't managed to move over 95% of the AIM crowd I interact with. =\
 

Reply posted by Xie at 10:31am on the 23rd August 2005  
I'll agree, very hard to move the AIM crowd. Smilie
 

Comment posted by VenomXt at 4:40am on the 23rd August 2005   
i hate aol if i could move everyone else then i would go to hehe.
 
Comment posted by kcnychief at 12:40pm on the 23rd August 2005   
The good thing about this though, is within the rumour there is discussion of Trillian or similar compatability. This way, we can all interact together Smilie
 
Comment posted by zeke_mo at 7:18pm on the 23rd August 2005   
Thats what I like about google products; they always seem to work with everything else. Im sure forefox integration isnt a far off idea. I really like how google doesnt get upset when another program wants to use their service *cough*
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