The View From Here

I would like to have inte­grated chat ser­vices on my domain. Users can con­nect via any Jabber-able client and inter­act with friends on other mes­sag­ing net­works (AIM, Yahoo, MSN, IRC, etc.). How? Well, I have already mar­ried a num­ber of sub-domains to my Google Apps account (cal­en­dar, email, etc.) and that’s work­ing awe­some. Now for chat.forsbergville.com. At first I thought I would install a Jab­ber server on my host. Then I real­ized that Google Talk may be able to do the leg-work for me. I can marry chat to Google Talk now, but Google Talk is under-populated and I want those other networks. Enter the process of fed­er­a­tion. Google Apps Admin Help tells me that: From: How can my users chat out­side the Google net­work? — Google Apps Help How can my users chat out­side the Google net­work? Print Google makes it pos­si­ble for your users to chat with peo­ple using other mes­sag­ing ser­vices through a process known as fed­er­a­tion. Go to Google Talk and open com­mu­ni­ca­tions to learn more about fed­er­a­tion and who we’re fed­er­at­ing with. While we’re fed­er­at­ing with a num­ber of other ser­vices, some ser­vices aren’t cur­rently acces­si­ble through the Google Talk net­work, and [ ... ]