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Good news from Google Talk. It looks like they are opening up their IM servers to talk with *any* and *all* Jabber servers. This is the coolest news in IM history. With any luck it will bring down the closed networks as people jump on the open IM bandwagon.

In a nut shell…

Google Talk network supports open interoperability with hundreds of other communications service providers through a process known as federation. This means that a user on one service can communicate with users on another service without needing to sign up for, or sign in with, each service.

Google shows it understands the power of Open standards and networks. Keep up the good work.