Google has an activeJabberserver, Google IM coming

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Google has an active Jabber server, Google IM coming soon?
Posted by Mike Stanclift on 23 Aug 2005 - 03:47

Thanks to OrangeSoul, Tom Servo, CarlNewton and bangbang023 for the heads up about this.

A recent New York Times story on the Google Sidebar had an interesting side note about an annoucement Wednesday of a new “communication tool” -- could this be the much speculated Google IM?

While executives would not disclose what the tool was, it has long been speculated that Google would introduce an IM service to compete with AOL, Yahoo, and MSN, and last year the rumor mill said that Google would use the open source Jabber protocol to power its product.

Inquisitive Neowin member Tom Servo, taking a que from member CarlNewton tried to connect to talk.google.com using his Trillian client.

What he got was a secure XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol, alternatively known as Jabber) server waiting for connections.

Could this be Google IM waiting to be unleashed? Since the server is using open source technology it'd be wonderful if anyone with a Jabber enabled chat client could use it (Trillian, GAIM, etc) and not just users of Google IM. While this hope is based on speculation, it does have some backing in the form of an active server.
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[Mephistopheles]

More competence? cool, I'm expecting it to be quite good, we just have to wait and find out.

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UPDATE: Google has released it's IM, which is called "Google Talk". It is currently in Beta Testing, like GMail. To download it go here: talk.google.com . You need to have a GMail account in order to log-in. If you don't have one, I can give an account, as I have 50 invites for GMail.

[Calumon]

[glow=purple,5,300]Can you give me an account. I want to try it.[/glow]