Google Talk Available Early
smash writes "Google's new IM service is already live. All you need is a Jabber-compatible Instant Messaging client (such as Apple's iChat, or gaim), and a GMail address." This should answer, at least in part, all of the speculation that has been flying around the net over the last couple of days. Update: Many users have been eager to let us know that Google Talk in indeed live.
Like Trillian, Miranda-IM doesn't support ICQ if you put AIM contacts on your ICQ contact list. Unlike Trillian, Miranda will let you use your ICQ UIN as an AIM account, and load the full and proper contact list, but it will then leave all of your ICQ contacts as just numbers. Either way, it's entirely useless, just like Trillian, and people like me still have to use ICQ 2003b to fully utilize their existing contact list.
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