[riffic]

good riddance, maybe their users will jump to Google Talk or other standards-based services.

This should serve as a cautionary tale to any company who relies on licensing proprietary technology in spite of emergent open standards.

[madars]

Google Talk is not standards-based at all. It is a proprietary extension to XMMP.

Edit: I was wrong. Thanks, riffic! They have documented everything -- http://code.google.com/apis/talk/talk_developers_home.html

[riffic]

http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0166.html