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Linking the IM clients together

In my last posting, I was talking about how the major IM clients made it difficult for everyone by closing themselves off from one another. In other words, if I am a MSN user, and my friend is on Yahoo, we wouldn't be able to talk to each other unless one of us downloaded and installed both clients.

Looks like I spoke too soon. This posting in the Good Morning Silicon Valley blog details plans between Yahoo and MSN to link their networks together, as well as Google and AOL to link their networks together.

Hopefully, in the near future, we will see everyone on an open standard such as XMPP that Jabber uses that can link all of them together without the need of 3rd party clients.