AOL moving to Jabber (XMMP)

Looks like AOL has seen the writing on the wall and is experimenting with XMPP for it's instant messaging services (ICQ and AIM). Check out this post with more info. This is great news for the users still on their networks (many switched to MSN), the rest of us went straight to a jabber.org account, or a GoogleTalk as that is already XMPP.

So finally it looks like IM is converging on a decent open standard. Better than a fractured proprietary system with each vendor hoping for a monopoly (like Betamax!). Now all we need is for MSN to addopt XMPP, or maybe all the users will just ditch it and use GoogleTalk or Facebook when they switch to Ubuntu? ;)