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Google released on their official weblog that they have made their Google Talk application inter operable with IBM's solution. What are the wider implications of this fact?
Through standards like XML the Internet has gained a potential to become a very different and much more inter operable digital arena.
Google and IBM have recently announced cooperation (through XMPP messaging protocol), which enables Google Talk and Lotus Sametimework together and therefore gives users of both software ability to chat in real time.
This is a significant (corporate) communication development as it means that Google Talk will be becoming more and more prominent application for real time on-line textual (and voice) conversations.
So what happens to Skype and MSN Messenger?
I would personally like to see all these applications being made much more inter operable for the sake of giving Internet users much better experience on-line.
I have MSN Messenger, Google Talk and Skype installed on my machine, but end up using mostly MSN Messenger on ongoing basis.
Reason? Too many messengers create a management problem of keeping track of people on-line and essentially keeping in touch with people.
Bare in mind that everyone tends to use different messengers in order to communicate with their friends in real time.
This means that if I want to be able to see all my friends or colleagues who are on-line at any given moment the moment I would have to have all messengers installed and be logged in with them in order to make sure I am not missing out on anyone.
This is also one more step towards creating a universal and unified login system, which Google is likely to provide a lead on and I am sure we are going to see world's leading Internet conglomerates working on this in not such a long future from now on.
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