try out google talk

Google Talk is minimalistic and is functional for simply sending messages, but there just isn’t a compelling reason to switch just yet. Most proponents of open standards are pretty excited about it since Jabber / XMPP sorely needed something to drive widespread adoption. And these days there’s irrational excitement around anything that Google touches…that should die down when people realize that the experience of IMing on Google Talk is roughly equivalent to IMing on AOL ten years ago. At any rate, I already had a GMail account and GAIM already supports Jabber so I’m connected, but not really talking that much to anybody.