Google to support Jabber: updated

There are some rumours that upcoming IM client from Google is based on Jabber - if you read the /. article, some people already verified that telnetting to port 5222 on talk.google.com returns something that looks like XMPP stanza. This is a very good news for Jabber community and could mean that Jabber as an open source protocol for IM will get the proper boost (and so that we can expect lots of cool things coming up.

Google's privacy issues are different thing, though...

UPDATED: Google Talk is live.