Tag: jabber

IM Interop

I must be psychic. This morning I was recalling that Google and AOL have long promised to integrate their instant messaging platforms. This would allow users on Google Talk to chat with their peeps who are on AOL Instant Messenger and vice versa. Low and behold, when I went to look it up I discovered that the expanded AOL-Google deal was unveiled exactly 1 year ago today. So what gives? Perhaps much more than what meets the eye.

Google Talk Interop

Now that Google has opened up their Google Talk servers for federation with other Jabber servers, you can use Google Talk to connect to your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo or ICQ. Here’s how, step-by-step with screenshots.

why is google not hosting those transports themselves?

Sidebar API

so many APIs! allows 2 gadgets on 2 computers to communicate as long as they are the same gadget, and both ends are on gtalk