Here they come… Google Talk

It’s based on Jabber/XMPP protocol which is an open standard, designed for distributed environment. This is nice because it’s developer-friendly, nobody wants to reverse engineering a proprietary protocol.
The voice feature is also good but unfortunately that it’s available only on Win32. But according to Google Talk’s developer info, it said technical information will be release in the near future.

This is why i love google, they know what developers want. Once the protocol is open, developers will hack on it, make it more robust, Flickr is a good example.

I guess this week’s most active project on SF will be GAIM