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.
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Google IM Wednesday!?
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Will be interesting to see what happens tomorrow, hopefully something. Personally, I only use MSN, but I can see why people who use many others would rather not have another.
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However, anything google makes is bound to annoy MS./biggrin.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':D\' />
Will be interesting to see what happens tomorrow, hopefully something. Personally, I only use MSN, but I can see why people who use many others would rather not have another.
However, anything google makes is bound to annoy MS.
Google IM Wednesday!?
Lol very true, though MSN hasnt been working for me recently. Id love it if (cant remember if this had been 'speculated' in the articles) it could use my hotmail addressess, because MSN hasnt been working for me lately. This will add fuel to the new Sidebar thing added in Googles new toolbar/desktop search bundle mwahwah /dance.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'(dance2)\' />
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