I just had a look into google blog and found the new information that google is opening it’s jabber servers for other servers. That means that everyone who has a jabber address can talk to everyone on google talk – pretty nice!
So Google is using open standards, respects them and is extending them if it makes sense – something other companies don’t make at all. And it’s one of the reasons why I still like google (from a technical point of view, not from a censorship point of view), although they could start publishing their software for Linux to be more liked by me 
Let’s see how fast and well the kopete group will implement the jingle plugin, and how well it will interact with KDE. I like to test around 
