Jabber

eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol

Multisite and Mass hosting Drupal
"This tool is called HostMaster, and is Bryght's answer to mass hosting Drupal."
Adium to participate in Google's Summer of Code
I suggested (privately) that they add as a 'proposal idea' support for JEP-0060, which is Publish-Subscribe in Jabber.
Voicemail coming to Google Talk, Gmail?
It would make all kinds of sense.
2006 will be the year of XMPP
Jabber's "a generalized XML message passing protocol optimized for real-time."
Phil Wilson's thoughts on Jabber, FOAF, RDF and peer-to-peer social networking
"The key to successful networks, and online networks in particular is that they require an object to connect them."
Gizmo Project has a Jabber chat server
It's probably not the Skype killer that Google Talk will be, but nice to see open standards becoming more popular.
Google Talk
Just got an IM from the service that the "broken link" was "fixed".
Google Talk review
SIP down the road, uses Jabber today, so although the screenshots are all Windows, anybody can connect using a Jabber client.