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[Oct 13, 2005] While Yahoo! and Microsoft link their proprietary networks for Instant
Messaging (read press
release), Google bets on Open Protocols to make information universally accessible.
And yesterday Google announced that Sean Egan has been hired by the company. Sean is the main developer of
Gaim,
the most popular IM client. According to Sean, he's to work "on making
it as easy as possible for other clients to use Google Talk's voice
features", so we can expect Gaim and other clients to be interoperable
with Google Talk's voice features in the near future.
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.
