Jon reports that Google Talk has gone live. The IM product builds on Gmail accounts and the open-source Jabber IM service. I'm already up and running on it with AdiumX, so I guess iChat will be taking a hike, and my fun balloons won't be used in the future. (Can anyone point me to a reasonable substitute for Adium?) If you want to jaw via Jabber courtesy of Google, use my site name at gmail dot com, but you have to have a Gmail account to play along. Let me know if you'd like an invitation via the e-mail address noted in the previous sentence.