Showing posts with label google. Show all posts
Showing posts with label google. Show all posts

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Pidgin, Google Talk, and XMPP

The Pidgin IM client supports just about every instant messaging protocol ever conceived, including many poorly-designed and undocumented proprietary protocols, such as those used by AOL, Yahoo!, and MSN.  It also supports  XMPP (aka Jabber), the open-standard protocol on which Google Talk is based.

There are some interesting technical and political issues surrounding the implementation of Google Talk's XMPP extensions...

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Who uglified iGoogle?

Awww, crud... who decided to change the iGoogle home page? It's now totally ugly and hard-to-read, with all kinds of tiny text coming from my RSS feeds.

Can anyone at Google make an option to re-enable the old format??