How Google Could Overthrow AIM

An anonymous reader writes "There's an interesting article over at Apple-X.net that speculates on the possibility of an instant-messaging service offered by Google that would be based on the open Jabber protocol. If Jabber was supported by a major company like Google, it could dominate over proprietary services such as AIM or MSN."

Comments

Go Google.

[caluml]

"Nothing for you to see here. Please move along."
Heh - same as always :)

I'd love to see Google get in with Jabber. Joogle? I use Jabber. But everyone I try to get on there simply says: But all my friends are on MSN. Some people have never ever heard of Yahoo, AIM, or the old classic, ICQ. Go Google, I say. Oh, and don't be evil. Although I'll be using SSL and GPG over Jabber, as usual.

Re:why?

[nkh]

If (and only if) it's based on Jabber and can communicate with every Jabber-compliant existing client, it will be easy to filter all the advertisements by dropping the unwanted XML tags.

Re:Jabber Quality

[tiptone]

Jabber isn't a client, it's a protocol. So i'm not sure what client you're using it at work, but it's not Jabber. i use Gaim for Jabber, here at work where everything is Windows or Linux.

Gaim doesn't support all the features of Jabber, if you're a windows user Exodus is really one of the best clients (MHO).

Google already has an instant messenger

[ElliotLee]

When they acquired Picasa, they also got Picasa Hello, which is now effectively Google Hello.