Google Talk, AIM to be interoperable

shanecavanaugh · Post by **shanecavanaugh** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:47 am

http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pre ... anded.html

The agreement's broad range of new features for users and advertisers include:

* Enabling Google Talk and AIM instant messaging users to communicate with each other, provided certain conditions are met

I haven't been able to find out what those certain conditions are.

bcompton · Post by **bcompton** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 4:50 pm

Joe Beda, one of the main devs on Google Talk in the Kirkland Google office, posted something on his weblog a few days ago about libjingle which is the p2p framework on top of Jabber that Google developed. It's released under the Berkeley license, and he says:

Sean Egan (of Gaim fame) packaged up the code that Talk uses to do p2p as a library for others to use. Hopefully this will start a flood of interoperable voice (and other p2p applications). So that anyone can use it the code is released under a berkeley style license.

So I imagine the conditions that will need to be met will be an AIM client that is compatible with Jabber Jingle. hopefully GAIM (and hopefully libgaim and AdiumX eventually) will fit these requirements by using this new code.

Wengero · Post by **Wengero** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 5:26 pm

google+aim=gaim?

im so funny

shanecavanaugh · Post by **shanecavanaugh** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 6:09 pm

From the New York Times:

There will be a somewhat complex procedure to link the two systems, however. Google Talk users will need to add an AOL screen name to communicate with other AOL users.

Ethion · Post by **Ethion** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 6:28 pm

Wengero wrote:google+aim=gaim?

im so funny

actually, that's pretty funny :]

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 7:22 pm

Ethion wrote:
Wengero wrote:google+aim=gaim?

im so funny
actually, that's pretty funny :]

Now try doing the same with Proteus.

Wengero · Post by **Wengero** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:04 pm

zaudragon wrote:
Ethion wrote:
Wengero wrote:google+aim=gaim?

im so funny
actually, that's pretty funny :]
Now try doing the same with Proteus.

poogle? ptalk? paim? pag?

Post by **evands** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:51 pm

shanecavanaugh wrote:From the New York Times:
There will be a somewhat complex procedure to link the two systems, however. Google Talk users will need to add an AOL screen name to communicate with other AOL users.

I bet they're just running an official Jabber transport on the gtalk servers...

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 9:33 pm

Wengero wrote:
zaudragon wrote:
Ethion wrote: actually, that's pretty funny :]
Now try doing the same with Proteus.
poogle? ptalk? paim? pag?

Poogle is the best there