Gmail introduces voice and video chat

Posted by Anuj Seth
November 12, 2008

Gmail has introduced support for voice and video chat. Gmail Video chat will now take on Skype head on.
A video from the Gmail team on YouTube:

An Open Instant Messaging Platform called Jabber

Posted by Anuj Seth
November 11, 2008

Jabber is an open instant messaging technology that is used by several free IM services. There are several free clients available on this platform and several servers as well, if you intend to run one in your own organization.
Jabber was acquired by Cisco in September 2008.
XMPP
Jabber created the popular Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) [...]