[Eug-lug] Jabber, IM, Google; and the internet is changing shape again

[larry price]

So tonight's big news is that Google's IM offering is coming out 
the interesting thing about this is that it's based on the jabber protocol
(aka XMPP as defined in RFCs 392[0-3]) and Google is making sounds
that should be fairly pleasing to people who are into using open
source tools.
http://www.google.com/talk/developer.html

I was able to connect using the IM client already on my computer (GAIM)
and it's trivial for any Jabber Client (including command line ones) to connect.

On a most practical note, they are talking about federating servers
and encouraging ISPs to set up their own Jabber/XMPP servers. In other
words using their market power to open up IM (at this point the only
competitive strategy that hasn't been tried by a major player in that
space)

So IM online tonight message me (hey tim.bolzt just added himself to
my buddy list :)

/me going into guru contemplation mode reading the bot example in the pyxmpp
distribution...

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