Google Talk Adopts XMPP, Jabber

Google has announced that its Google Talk service is now fully interoperable with other communications services that support the server-to-server XMPP protocol.

This open interoperability, also known as federation, enables any communications service provider to connect to Google Talk, so respective users can talk to each other.

Many service providers world-wide support XMPP federation today, as also thousands of active XMPP-based communications services run by major corporations, ISPs, universities, and individual users. Some of these service providers supporting XMPP federation include Jabber.org, Earthlink, Sipphone's Gizmo Project, Chikka (Philippines), MediaRing (Singapore), Tiscali (Italy), and Netease (China).