Google announces open federation for thier IM service
Official Google Blog: Open federation for Google Talk
We’ve just announced open federation for the Google Talk service. What does that mean, you might be wondering. No, it has nothing to do with Star Trek. “Open federation” is technical jargon for when people on different services can talk to each other.
Sounds good to me currently i run trillian which connects to the 5 major ones but does this via plugins because IM services besides aim/icq which are both owned by AOL do not “talk” to each other. This is why people who the only way to contact them is via IM, or Myspace, or any other Centralised Propreitary service is dangerous as it could shut down at anytime and no-one could contact you.