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Does Gmail want to be instant messaging? New UI experiment says “yes” (arstechnica.com)
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[–] anlumo 0 points 1 year ago

No, it came after Google Talk (XMPP) and was in fact based on the same protocol. The new thing it brought was live updates, so you could see other people typing, and it also had different types of content, not just text.