Google Backs IM Standard

[Brett_Tabke]

Another IM/Jabber Story:

[pcworld.com...]

Google is contributing to multimedia extensions to the open Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) that will enable XMPP-based instant messaging applications to conduct sessions involving voice and video.

The effort is spearheaded by the nonprofit Jabber Software Foundation (JSF), which last week published the initial documentation for this set of multimedia extensions, called Jingle.