Russell Beattie whose blog has been out of action for some time has a great write up on moving to Jabber. I have been trying to move people over and I have had a reasonable amount of success. Possible my greatest was when Clint made Jabber compatible.

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 […]