Various Jabber news

Some time ago Google started their own IM service (GTalk) based on the open standard called XMPP or Jabber. The rest of the Jabber community is still waiting for them to open up for s2s (server to server) communication, which is a rather important part of the XMPP standard since roughly Jabber works similar to email.

Instead Google extended the protocol to support VoIP (voice chat) and they have now released this for the public in coorporation with the Jabber Software Foundation (JSF). They haven't just released the specification, they have released a library too which means that clients should be able to implement support for this pretty fast. One example is the Psi client.

This is only the first step - over the next months they should add support for things like video, gaming and file sharing. A lot more is happening in the Jabber world as can be seen in the latest Jabber Journal.

The future looks bright for Jabber!