Speaking of Google Talk

26th August, 2005     Google,

Not everyone believes Google Talk is all good news. Nugget believes that even tho Google is using the same protocol as Jabber, that Google is just again isolating IM clients, where the point of Jabber was interoperability with any number of servers, whether they be your own, or some of the public servers.

A good (long) read, and well worth the time. I for one, do agree with many of the points raised.

Unfortunately as I noted to him on IRC, Google Talk is not designed for those who actually care about the underlying protocol. The audience it is trying to attract, in most cases, would care more about the fact that Google Talk allows them to use a whole new range of Emoticons, then this fact.

Unfortunate, but true.