Well this sums up my thoughts about Google Talk. But i see it in a dieffrent way, if google can give Jabber a kick up the arse to implement web-cams then this could be big. Jabber is already capable of connecting to the other IM services in one client (also one connection as although you still have to sign up for each network, then link it to your jabber server account, you only connect via the jabber server rather then MSN, AIM and Yahoo all at the same time). What we really need is interoperability, and if google let you use MSN, AIM and Yahoo accounts with Google talk (is possible) then it will be a big wake up call to the big 3