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I don't often use this blog to plug my employer's products, and I've certainly never used this blog to promote a Microsoft product before. But as this has a lot of personal utility to me, I'll make an exception.\r\n\r\n

Yesterday MS and Yahoo! announced the beginning of interoperability between Yahoo! Instant Messenger and MSN Messenger (recently renamed Windows Live Messenger). Users of either client are now able to add users from the other network and chat to them just as they would anybody else. This is huge for me personally, because I'm on Y!IM all day, and never on MSN anymore -- but most of you guys are on MSN.\r\n\r\n

So if you're an MSN user, get the beta and then I can start talking to you (or you can try Y!IM instead, but fewer of you will care about that). You don't have to add my Y!IM id or anything -- it'll just work.","updated",["D",1152856979000],"created",["D",1152856979000],"codename","use_the_beta_luke","legacy_id","3485","published",["D",1152856979000],"draft",false,{"_10":31,"_12":32,"_14":33,"_16":34,"_18":35,"_20":36,"_22":37,"_24":38,"_26":39,"_28":29},232,"Google Talk","Google launched an IM and VoIP client, but it's basic compared to Trillian and lacks a killer feature until it connects to other networks like MSN and AIM. Worth watching, but for now it's a \"wait and see.\"","\r\n\r\n

Google today launched Google Talk, an instant-messaging and VoIP (voice calling) client, but at the moment it's not even in Google's own top 10 results for that phrase, there being several websites also called Google Talk already (even googletalk.com is taken by somebody else, who at least is being nice and pointing all the traffic at a charity's website). So I thought I'd link to them and help them out.\r\n\r\n

At the moment the client is a bit basic, not a patch on Trillian Pro -- but free, unlike Trillian. The technolgoy behind it is Jabber, which has the capability to connect to other types of IM networks, so Google also has plans to allow communication with MSN, AIM and the other networks. Until that happens, though, there's no real killer feature to make you want to switch, especially if all your friends use MSN. It'll be interesting to see where they go with this one, but at the moment it's a \"wait and see\" thing.\r\n\r\n

More discussion on the Google forums. ",["D",1124896666000],["D",1124896666000],"google_talk","3309",["D",1124896666000],"actionData","errors"]

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