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  jabber/Gtalk, encryption & emoticons shipped: On flashing, right nowe we scroll the name of the person who just IMd and the first line of their IM on the tab or in the task bar. A number of folks have asked for flashing, so that’s something we’ll try to figure out how to do shortly.

 [Voidstar] Instant Messaging shake up.: Now Google + Jabber open standards IM + SIP open standards Voice/Video + Apple + AOL could be a force to be reckoned with. It'll certainly make Skype, MSN and Yahoo!

 [The Internet Hammer Enterprise | Read. Think. Smash.] Google Talk and Open Standards: Anyone with a Gmail account can use the service, either with Google's Windows client, or any number of IM clients that support Jabber, popular ones being Gaim, iChat, Trillian Pro, and of course, Kopete. The buddy list on Google Talk is integrated with your Gmail contact list, so if you've actually been using your Gmail account, you might see a number of other users online right away.

[Smashsworld.com] smash's world: I'm on Google Talk right now. _ the offical ...: Feel free to IM around with fellow GMail users just by adding their addresses to your list! I'm not sure how long this is going to work, but let's make the best of it.

[Office.weblogsinc.com] Google Talk is released - The Office Weblog - office.weblogsinc.com _: I'm sure chat transcript search is part of the plan as well. Michael Robertson, of Linspire and Gizmo Project fame, wrote this morning in his newsletter that what's really important about Google Talk is not the features it has or is missing - it's the open protocol (Jabber) work-and-play-with-others approach that Google is taking to IM - something AOL, Yahoo!, MSN, and...

[Google.blognewschannel.com] » Google Talk Is Live! InsideGoogle » part of the Blog News Channel: If you invite someone who doesn’t already have Gmail, we’ll include an invitation to that as well, since they’ll need a Gmail username and password to use Google Talk. The number of non-Gmail users you can invite at any one time is determined by the number of Gmail invitations you have left in your account, which you can see on the invite screen.

 [Labnol.blogspot.com] Digital Inspiration: talk.google.com - Google IM based on Jabber: Tom Servo, 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.

 [Drunkenblog.com] 1,2,3,4 -- I Declare IM War: So now, while on the face of things Google has yet again snubbed the Apple community, but in actuality has provided fairly easy access to its systems and services (see GoogleMaps, and GMail initial offerings...no Mac support, but Safari users had fairly immediate access with some limitations on specific tasks, until subsequent updates).

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