Google Talk, Dreamhost and Jabber

January 17th, 2006

This is awesome, Google Talk has enabled XMPP Federation meaning that I can set up a Jabber server, and have it linked in to the Google Talk network. I can see some awesome benefits of this, not least of all the decentralizing of the instant messengers.

Companies will be able to run their own servers and control the communication past the firewall. People like me will be able to set up a server to serve their friends with more features that the old (lock-in) instant messenger networks won’t support, and best of all it’s open.

posted by Michael Gall at 6:04 pm & tagged with Tags: , , |


2 Comments to “Google Talk, Dreamhost and Jabber”

  1. February 7th, 2008 at 5:13 am
    Jon said:

    Does dreamhost actually allow auth through Googletalk?

  2. July 5th, 2008 at 3:22 am
    Noah said:

    I agree with Jon. Adding my Google Talk account to my Dreamhost Jabber account doesn’t work, and vice versa, and it seems like an authorization thing. If you got this to work, please let me know how, because I agree that it’d be awesome!

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