Archive for March, 2007

Using Google Talk to log MSN conversations

Published by David Carrington on March 26, 2007 under Misc

Jabber + Google Talk + MSN + ICQ = my preferred IM

  1. Get a Jabber client
  2. Get various accounts (Google, MSN, ICQ, AIM… etc)
  3. Configure your Jabber client to connect to Google Talk
  4. Find a jabber server with an MSN jabber transport - Open Jabber Servers
  5. Talk to a few people
  6. Check out your chat history from within the Google Mail interface

Being able to do this is definitely the turning point for me to switch over from using Gaim to Jabber. I personally use Miranda IM to connect to Jabber, but only until I find one that suits me better.

Now all my contacts (with aliases and groups) and chat history is all stored on Google’s servers, which means I can access the exact same contact list from anywhere with an internet connection.