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Why Google Isn’t Talking to Other Jabber Servers

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

Since the release of Google's IM application (powered by XMPP protocol aka Jabber) folks have been wondering why Google's Jabber server does not talk to other servers, just like mail servers do. After all, one of the key features of the XMPP protocol is federation which allows Jabbers servers to ...

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Google and IM Standards

Wednesday, August 24th, 2005

Long in rumors, Google finally announced their IM client. Among the other interesting things about it is the fact that it uses an open standard protocol called XMPP (otherwise known as Jabber) which has been approved by the IETF some time ago. Most of other commercial IM networks use their ...

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