The new found bonhomie between Yahoo & Google is not just about AdSense, the two companies are connecting their popular IM clients as well. That means you no longer require any third-party hacks to chat with your Yahoo! Messenger friends using Google Talk and vice-versa. From the PR: “Yahoo! and Google agreed to enable interoperability between their respective instant messaging services bringing easier and broader communication to users.†Microsoft & Yahoo already offer interoperability between Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger so this gives Yahoo! users the best of both worlds – they can talk with friends on Google Talk as well as those who on are MSN Messenger.
Great - as a webmaster I have over 10 messengers running at a time... That can be tiresome sometimes...
Why? There's a million free applications out there that allow you to chat with people no matter what IM system they are on. Trillian, for one, has been out for almost 10 years now. Where have you been?
This is such a great news for the user. I have to say already too many IM in my computer due to my friends are using different IM. If they merge the yahho massager and google talk, at least i can reduce 1 IM
You guys need to get caught up to the times. You don't need to have more than 1 application on your computer in order to talk to friends that are using different IMs. There are at least 10 free applications out there now that allow you to talk to anyone from any different IM system you want.