- Google Talk works with other jabber servers.[1]
- Google Talk is to become compatible with AIM.[2]
- Sametime is to be compatible with AIM, Yahoo, and Google.[3]
- Yahoo is to be compatible with MSN.[4]
This is going to be nightmare-ish. I am seriously going to start getting reports about how user A can talk to user B, but user C cannot. Now, in addition to the varied authorization and privacy controls across the varied protocols, I will have to worry about if users A, B and C are using mutually compatible protocols, when in all likelihood none of users A, B or C even realize they are using a protocol or protocols.
- Google. Google Talk Developer page on "Service Choice". viewed 2006-01-24 http://www.google.com/talk/developer.html#service
- Mr. Saul Hansell. "AOL and Google Formalize Partnership to Include Shared Selling of Ads" The New York Times (online). 2005-12-21 http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/21/technology/21aol.html?ei=5089&en=87fa3740fb426e06&ex=1292821200&adxnnl=0&partner=rssyahoo&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1135189793-we2js80BjoKJQmvuvAPGBQ&pagewanted=print
- Reuters. "You'll Get Mail, From I.B.M.'s Customers" The New York Times (online). 2006-01-24 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/24/technology/24blue.html?ei=5088&en=1f6fac6f90b59e73&ex=1295758800&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print
- This was announced on the Yahoo Messenger Home page. It does not seem to be now.