Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Google / AOL Partnership to Aid IM Interopability

A much overlooked consequence of the Google / AOL partnership is their commitment to interopability between GoogleTalk and AIM.

From the press release:

"Google Talk Instant Messaging Software to Communicate with AIM users"

Such an arrangement will propel GoogleTalk from the runt of the IM litter to an equal first position with the current heavy-weight of the field, AIM. Will this be enough to encourage the other big players (Yahoo!Talk and MSN) to play friendly?

by Reto Meier at 12/21/2005 10:48:00 AM

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1 comments:

Phillip said...

thanks for the info. to answer your question: will MSN and yahoo talk be playing friendly? Yes, they will, their IM services will be merging soon as well. here's a link to the message on yahoo

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