AOL Adopting Jabber (XMPP)
sander writes to tell us that AOL seems to have decided to make their AIM and ICQ services compatible with XMPP. A test server is up at xmpp.oscar.aol.com, and while it's still buggy most major Jabber clients seem to work.
With this news, I am more interested in what the pundits say about this development. What does this really mean for the little Joe User?