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Instead of waiting for GoogleIM to come out (if ever)... try ubergroups.com. We've been building this service for nearly a year now, and we're not launching until next month but in the mean time you can sign up and check out the technology preview of our service.

Instead of person-to-person messaging, we have built this service around the concept of private IM groups (hence the name) that people can join or be invited to. Once you're in a group you can see everyone who's in that group - no screen name swapping or awkwardness. Everything's secure and logged, and you can go back and search through your old conversations or file transfers. You can also share files and thoughts with other group members through private blogs.

Already it's become a core way of operating for us internally. It's very useful for any type of project team or development group.

On the tech side, we've built this IM service on top of XMPP/Jabber so you can use any client you want (iChat coming soon), or you can use our Java client, which is pretty nice and loads through Web Start.

The basic service is free and we'll be rolling out some cool for-pay options down the road as well.

Bottom line: no need to wait for Google to do this. Try ubergroups.com for yourself and see why.

Instead of waiting for GoogleIM to come out (if ever)... try ubergroups.com. We've been building this service for nearly a year now, and we're not launching until next month but in the mean time you can sign up and check out the technology preview of our service.

Instead of person-to-person messaging, we have built this service around the concept of private IM groups (hence the name) that people can join or be invited to. Once you're in a group you can see everyone who's in that group - no screen name swapping or awkwardness. Everything's secure and logged, and you can go back and search through your old conversations or file transfers. You can also share files and thoughts with other group members through private blogs.

Already it's become a core way of operating for us internally. It's very useful for any type of project team or development group.

On the tech side, we've built this IM service on top of XMPP/Jabber so you can use any client you want (iChat coming soon), or you can use our Java client, which is pretty nice and loads through Web Start.

The basic service is free and we'll be rolling out some cool for-pay options down the road as well.

Bottom line: no need to wait for Google to do this. Try ubergroups.com for yourself and see why.

Our company's product ubergroups.com (on-demand business IM for workgroups) is based on secure, closed IM groups so that these type of automatic virus propagation "worms" would have a tough time getting to you. In fact it wouldn't be possible for a virus to hijack your IM connection in this way. We're Java based too, so when someone writes an actual buffer overflow worm for one of the big IM services you won't be exposed to that either.

We're in early beta now, please check out our service - it's free!

Our company's product ubergroups.com (on-demand business IM for workgroups) is based on secure, closed IM groups so that these type of automatic virus propagation "worms" would have a tough time getting to you. In fact it wouldn't be possible for a virus to hijack your IM connection in this way. We're Java based too, so when someone writes an actual buffer overflow worm for one of the big IM services you won't be exposed to that either.

We're in early beta now, please check out our service - it's free!

At our startup we're working on a new take on the instant-messaging space. Our new product ubergroups.com is currently in beta. It's a team based, on demand IM service for users who need security and want to get past the limitations and consumer-oriented nature of AIM/Yahoo.

We've based it on XMPP so you can use whatever client you want to send IMs... including iChat in the next OS X release!

We picked XMPP because of the wide array of client software available that implements it, and because it can handles complexity and additional (optional) protocol features well. It's a good basis for a first-class IM service.

If you're curious please give it a shot and send us any feedback or ideas you have! Thanks.

At our startup we're working on a new take on the instant-messaging space. Our new product ubergroups.com is currently in beta. It's a team based, on demand IM service for users who need security and want to get past the limitations and consumer-oriented nature of AIM/Yahoo.

We've based it on XMPP so you can use whatever client you want to send IMs... including iChat in the next OS X release!

We picked XMPP because of the wide array of client software available that implements it, and because it can handles complexity and additional (optional) protocol features well. It's a good basis for a first-class IM service.

If you're curious please give it a shot and send us any feedback or ideas you have! Thanks.

If you're looking for free XMPP-based IM that requires no "configuration," and will solve the problem of having to manually add users to your lists that you need to communicate with -- you may want to check out ubergroups.com. It works via users establishing networks or "workgroups" of contacts, rather than (in a large corporate example) throwing everyone together in a directory of thousands of users.

We've been developing something along the lines of what a geek would dream Google IM to be like - ubergroups.com, a secure team-oriented IM/Blog web service. (Please check the service out, we're in beta, launching in October, and welcome your feedback!)

We've chosen XMPP as the protocol of choice for our service because of the wide range of client software, and because it was easy for us to implement our own client and server software.

Naturally this is great news for us since iChat is perhaps the nicest consumer IM interface out there. It gives us instant access to the entire deployed base of OS X users. Apple users are very interested in staying ahead of the curve and are early adopters of new technologies. It's very exciting to know that every Mac user will have a great experience with our service.