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<br><div><div>On Nov 1, 2007, at 12:13 PM, Janne Jokitalo wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">John Dangler wrote:</div> <blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">If you read the thread, you'll understand the statement.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Basically, the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">upshot (concensus) is that I would need an account on every one of those</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">protocols in order to communicate with others in those protocols.</div> </blockquote><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hi again,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">yeah sorry, I should remember by now to look further ahead as this is a very</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">busy list, so someone is bound to have answered a question some minutes</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">after the original post hits the mailboxen of subscribers. :)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">But yeah, no client can escape from the protocol jungle without proper</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">accounts for each. Except for that coming gtalk, if that rumour holds true.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Jaska</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </blockquote><br></div><div>I don't know about GTalk being the "unified im client" or not. I do know that you can hack GTalk to use the Windows desktop client as your sole IM client. Under the covers GTalk uses XMMP and you can exploit that to access your buddy lists from the other protocols. Basically you download an open source IM client, PSI, and set it up to be your GTalk client. Then you add transports for Y!, MSN, and AOL by searching for open transports on jabber servers. Once you find a transport (harder than you think as most jabber servers require an account any more) you add that to PSI and configure it with your sign in information. Once you've added the MSN, Y!, and AOL XMMP transports to PSI you quit PSI (forever) and log into the native GTalk desktop client. Now you can see and talk to any of your buddies on any protocol. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>If Google were to provide their own transports (and server) then I could see it becoming a popular multi-protocol client on the platforms where it is supported.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>You can find more about hacking GTalk here: <a href="http://lifehacker.com/software/hack-attack/chat-with-aim-msn-yahoo-and-other-contacts-over-google-talk-289097.php">http://lifehacker.com/software/hack-attack/chat-with-aim-msn-yahoo-and-other-contacts-over-google-talk-289097.php</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Mark</div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Gill Sans'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>--</div><div>Release 7.10, Kernel 2.6.22-14-generic</div><div>Dual 3.4 GHz Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU</div><div>2.2 GB RAM, ATI Radeon X300 Graphics</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>