Got some emails today from friends inviting me to use Google Talk. As I fortunately do not have to use Windows at home or at work (or rather have chosen not to waste time with it, life is too short), I cannot use Google's client.
But all is not lost. Because the service uses the Jabber protocol (XMPP), and because Google has a "Developer's FAQ" that spells out the details, it was relatively easy to configure my favourite IM client (Fire, for Mac OS X) to connect to the talk.google.com server. [2005-06-07: I've since started using AdiumX for Mac OS X, and found it a better IM client in several respects, I still keep Fire around, but don't use it much]
In principle, any client will do for IM, as long as it supports secure connections to a Jabber-protocol server. Hopefully, some third party clients will include in the near future the capability of doing VOIP (like Google's client does) once the details of the protocol/API are released.
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