‘With last month’s launch of Google Talk, in a first beta version, it is going to try.

At the moment, instant messaging is being crippled by a Balkanisation of the market that is incompatible with users’ needs.

Running an instant messaging system is like being thrown back to the 1980s, when you needed a Prestel account to send e-mail to other Prestel users, a Compu-serve account to write to Compu-serve users, a Telecom Gold account for ITT Dialcom users, an AOL account… and so on.

When the use of internet e-mail took off, everyone could communicate with everyone else, and proprietary mail services either adapted or died.’

Read more at Can Google bring openness to messaging?

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