Zaphod for President

In the official google blog Mike Jazayeri, product manager for google talk writes that you can now subscribe to google talk even without having a gmail account. It has been quite some time now that they opened up their servers to the xmpp world, meaning that google talk users can basically reach anyone with a jabber account and vice versa. In fact the client protocol they use is jabber, so you can use any jabber client to connect to it. Here is how.

I run a connection to google talk as the fifth! jabber connection on my psi jabber client and it seems very stable to me. Yes thats a lot — i administer two jabber servers and off course like to know whats going on with those that some of my friends are responsible for.