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... -- http://Zoneverte.org -- information explained Do you know what your IT infrastructure does? _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
