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  1. AOL in the US by sentientbrendan · · Score: 2, Informative · on Microsoft Ties Windows Live Services to OS

    Things like IM are all about what social group you are in.

    In the united states, AIM is still by far the most widely used chat protocol
    http://www.bigblueball.com/forums/general-other-im -news/34413-im-market-share.html

    AIM is actually pretty nifty if you don't try to use the new clients from AOL (which installs crap in the backgrount). Most people I know either have an old version of AIM (installers for every version are available online) or use third party clients like trillian, gaim/pidgin/adium.

    Google's trick of automatically signing you up for google talk and automatically adding your friends to your contact list will probably pay off in the long run though. I already sign onto both AIM and google talk on my pidgin client.

  2. Google Talk is my multi-service client by ShannaraFan · · Score: 1 · on Six Multi-Service IM Clients Reviewed

    By following the method described here and my own private Jabber server, I have all of my contacts (MSN, AIM, Yahoo, and GTalk) available in one place - GTalk. No matter what machine or OS I'm on, I always have my IM contacts available. It's not fancy, shiny stuff is minimal, but it works.

  3. Yes, Yahoo! msgr server is down by JemVai777 · · Score: 1 · on Hacktivismo launches ScatterChat

    Read more: And the Yahoo! Server goes down...

  4. Re:Buddy Icons by bigblueball · · Score: 2, Informative · on Google's GTalk Supports XMPP

    Actually, I spoke with Gayle Laakman at CES (the engineer working on Google Talk's upcoming buddy icons). They have nothing to do with AIM interoperability. http://www.bigblueball.com/forums/google-talk-news /33539-google-talk-buddy-icons.html However, she did say that the interoperability between Google Talk and AIM would be similar to that between iChat and AIM; iChat users can add an AIM screenname and vice versa. In other words, it doesn't appear that it will be using XMPP with AIM (no big surprise there).

  5. Re:How to get it work in trillian by bigblueball · · Score: 1 · on Google Talk Available Early

    I've added screenshots for the lame: http://www.bigblueball.com/forums/t31807-success-c onnecting-to-talkgooglecom-server-via-trillian.htm l

  6. Working via Trillian Pro by bigblueball · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Google Talk Available Early

    I've got it working via Trillian Pro, and posted the details here: here. Works great, but nothing to get excited about. Right now it looks and acts like a standard Jabber server. I'm more interested to see if they'll include connectors for the other IM networks (I suspect they will) and what the Google Talk client looks like. With multi-network support, a no-nonsense UI (while most IM programs are nonsense-full), and voice chat (or better yet, VoIP) support -- Google Talk will rock.

  7. 75% of Network Connections Not From Browsers by smithwis · · Score: 1 · on New Worm Spreads Via MSN Messenger
    One has to wonder if the numbers from the previous post...

    "MSN Messenger Service at 19 percent" ( Big Blue Ball News)

    ...were artificialy inflated by the worm;-)