Google Talk is Here
Google Talk is here - and available to anyone who has a Google IM client (although as it’s based on Jabber, there are already plenty of clients other than Google’s own one!) - however it appears to be fairly well integrated into GMail itself - it’ll pick up your contact iist automatically, as well as provide alerts for incoming emails. (Link)
Is this the final nail in the coffin of the battle between MSN/AOL/Yahoo for the IM market - or is it just another protocol to have running - we’ll see…
The details for using other Jabber clients are available from Forever Geek
I have a number of Gmail (and therefore Google Talk invitations) available, so if you don’t have a GMail account and want one - give me a shout via the contact form.
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This is all well and good but i will still have to use msn as 98% of my contacts won’t switch. Not really going to have the option to switch like with gmail.
John, I know the problem well - 95% of my contacts are on MSN, 1 on Jabber, 2 on AOL - so I use the Trillian client most of the time, which merges them all into one contact list.