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- Wed 01 Sep 02004 07:22 AM
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There seems to be a swell of interest in the fact that Google could introduce an IM client built on top of Jabber, all of which have some interesting ideas:
Here are some links from earlier in the year which I found as well:
As Bob Wyman pointed out in a comment on this post though, Google already picked up an IM system with their acquisition of Picasa, so why would they change over? I’d argue that they’d change to Jabber because the protocol/s are more advanced than Hello, and there is a lot of flexibility which I’m sure Google would take advantage of in some cool way.
As Jim reports here, Jabber needs a very easy-to-use client to enhance take up (and for me!), especially regarding the transports across to the other IM systems. The fact that these bridges reside server side is a huge advantage for Jabber clients since the user doesn’t need to download a patch when Yahoo decide to modify their protocol slightly. Will Google introduce that?
Of course, an even more astonishing move would be for Yahoo to switch…
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Dominik wrote at 08:03 AM on 01 Sep 2004
Google already has an amazingly well-crafted web-based IM system – Gmail.
Since the firewall here at work does not allow anything but the browsers to connect outside, Gmail turned into my favourite IM system, especially since all my peers use it just the same way.