The new Hangouts is designed to put an end to the proliferation of Google chat services and promises to provide interesting features - but its missing XMPP support potentially means that numerous Google Talk contacts could be irretrievably lost
Seems to be too late for #dontbeevil
XMPP is the latest in the range of well-established open protocols to be dropped by Google.
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