Connect to AIM, MSN, & Yahoo w/ Google Talk
Submitted on January 24th, 2006 by admin
Filed under Networking and Software and Windows
One of the big Google announcements while TipMonkies was on that crazy hiatus was that Google Talk would now work with other Jabber servers, a term dubbed federation. As a result of this, it was only a matter of (short) time before people started trying to connect to other IM protocols through Google Talk. See, Jabber clients can connect to AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and other networks through server transports, which not many people may know about. BigBlueBall has put up a very easy to follow article on connecting Google Talk to AIM, MSN, and Yahoo using the free Jabber client, Psi. Once done, you’ll have your AIM buddies available right from Google Talk.
[tags]gtalk, google, im, aim, jabber, msn, yahoo, tips[/tags]
January 24th, 2006 at 12:10 pm
I gave it a try last night, but had no success. I was unable to connect to the Aim Transport, but I haven’t given up. I did get it to show up on my gtalk contact list, which shows that there is some truth to the possiblity of it working. If you get it to work, hit me on gtalk (bigslim).
January 26th, 2006 at 10:08 am
Issuing a retraction:
After some hard work and countless nights of burning the midnight oil, I finally got it to work. Actually I just did a fresh install and it started working. The really cool part is that I thought it was a hack that would only work on my system, but I had a surprise when I got to work today. The hack worked across talk.google.com network. So what have I learned? I learned that if you can’t access the transports because of your jobs networks, you can just perform the hack at home. And when you get to work tomorrow, you be able to lose your job because of your insatiable IM habits.
February 2nd, 2006 at 1:45 am
pls make connect for me one phone number