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KingBahamut
October 13th, 2005, 08:04 PM
According to Dirson's blog, Google's just hired Sean Egan (the main developer of Gaim open IM client), just the same day Yahoo! and Microsoft plan to link their respective proprietary IM networks." From the post: "While Yahoo! and Microsoft link their proprietary networks for Instant Messaging, Google bets on Open Protocols to make information universally accessible ... Currently, Google uses XMPP/Jabber specs, but they claim to be supporting open server-to-server federation, and work "to hear from other people in the communications industry about how best to build a federation model that is open, scalable". In fact, there are this month several tests with firms like EarthLink, Sipphone or PeopleCall.

External Links
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/12/0227207&tid=215
http://google-blog.dirson.com/post.new/0289/
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/

I think this just kicks ****.

You know for the occasional news I post would it be cool if instead of /.ing a site , we could ubuntu-ing a site? =)
matthew
October 13th, 2005, 08:10 PM
You know for the occasional news I post would it be cool if instead of /.ing a site , we could ubuntu-ing a site? =)
Oh, no! Our site's been Ubunterated!
majikstreet
October 13th, 2005, 08:31 PM
The ubuntuering would ROCK!

KB, I just was on the gaim site about 10 minutes ago and saw that. LOL
poofyhairguy
October 13th, 2005, 11:09 PM
This is awesome. Yet again Google hires someone that developes one of my favorite applications. Its getting to the point that my old natual suspicion of computer companies does not apply any more to Google.

Now if only they would port Picassa or Google Earth to Linux, Google can solidify its place in their nerds heart.
Lovechild
October 13th, 2005, 11:13 PM
Now if only they had hired the Farsight guys instead

Farsight (http://farsight.sf.net) - these guys seriously rock, but they need some PR, their work is plain awesome.
mstlyevil
October 13th, 2005, 11:22 PM
I just got done reading an article on Cnet that Google is in talks with Time Warner for buying into AOL.

http://news.com.com/Is+AOL+in+play/2100-1030_3-5894929.html?tag=nefd.lede

Boy the war against Google and Microsoft is heating up.
BWF89
October 13th, 2005, 11:30 PM
This is great. Hopefully some people will switch from Trillian to Gaim.
luckyaba
October 13th, 2005, 11:44 PM
One Google To Rule Them All!!