Will Google officially announce their “Google Talk” service tomorrow? That’s the buzz now and that actually wouldn’t surprise me. After years of locked-in IM protocols, popularity IM contests and ridiculous IM bloat variants (MSN, most notably, with their pay for features), it’s about time that there should be a universal IM standard and if that’s going to be Jabber, it’s for the better. Time to get rid of ubiquous sub standards.
08/24/05: They did it.