I'm sure you all keep up on your feeds, but in case you missed it... http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/open-federation-for-google-talk.html http://www.google.com/talk/developer.html#service This is the best news I've heard in months! To celebrate, I'm going to cancel all my non-jabber IM accounts. Long live the XMPP protocol! Gabe