Google's GTalk Supports XMPP

IceFox writes "On Google Gtalk blog Mike Jazayeri announced open federation for the Google Talk service. Nothing to do with Star Trek it means they now support open federation with any service provider that supports the industry standard XMPP protocol. Although they don't specifically mention AIM compatibility, at CES GTalk was shown with buddy icons so it can't be that far away."

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More Google Talk Resources

[eldavojohn]

For those readers interested in customizing Google Talk, I would suggest looking at Customize Talk. It has a lot of great downloads.

If you want to be able to chat to your friends on AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Chat, Jabber, IRC, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, GroupWise, Zephyr or Google Talk, then I suggest you download GAIM which works on virtually any platform. There are some configurations that need to be set to connect to Google Talk networks.

And, if you're really into this stuff, join the Google Talk Open Group on Google Groups and help people fix bugs or figure out how to kill bugs that you might have!

Nice, but still some flaws

[GORby_]

Apparently, there are some problems with certain servers (malformed XML), and there's no support for chat rooms yet. This is not really google's fault if that's true, since it's the other server that are sending out the malformed XML, and google seems to use strict checking...

I guess the lacking features will be added later, but it would have been nice to have that already.

Linux?

[kote-men-do]

We should really slap google (by means of some sort of "internetworked slapping device") for not supporting desktop linux... Gtalk, gvideo store, their desktop search appliance, ... No linux versions for any of these!

Very disappointing if you ask me.

Reposting comment

[eSavior]

Here is a comment I put on the Newsgab story (Found it trying to find people talking about the google talk announcement)

I doubt the others will follow. Open networks compete on things like features reliability, but closed networks compete on things like the ability to talk to people you know. So, by MS keeping a closed im network if I want to talk to someone on it, I cant just add them to my list I have to start up a account and get a compatible client. (I am sure I am not telling you anything you didnt know, but it is important to realize open networks mean a better instant messenging experience because it changes the rules of competition) The opening of the servers will probably not make much news, but really its a huge event. A open im network (with many users) is something that has been long coming and hopefully googles move to embrace it will allow for many more users to see the light.

So as I said, this is a huge move, heres hoping the news media doesn't downplay it. I see some commenters complaining about lack of features, well this move should make you happy then! Just jump to a server with alot of transports/services (*cough* ursine.ca *cough*) and you can still talk to all your gtalk buddies. Thats the greatness of open networks, servers competing on features NOT users.

Buddy Icons

[FooAtWFU]

Uhh, I don't know if you realize this, but plenty of other protocols besides AIM support buddy icons- Yahoo! Instant Messanger, MSN Instant Messanger, Jabber (which is XMPP itself)...

AIM may be coming or it may not but don't rely on the buddy icons to tell you.

Re:Lacks voice support on Mac and Linux

[protomala]

Kopete 0.12 from CVS/SVN and PSI already have support for voice, and it works.
This is the beauty of open-source, google instead of building a google talk client for linux give everbody a lib for voice and is using open standards (jabber).
Nice move of them.

Title should be: Google Talk supports XMPP s2s

[Intosi]

Google Talk was always XMPP client to server (c2s), but they started accepting open federation recently (yesterday, as far as I know) using the XMPP server to server protocol (s2s).