Why i hate Google's Gtalk ??? When we talk about basic purpose of an IM (Instant Messenger) , GTALK stands firm in that category. It has got all must have

Easiest and the best way for desktop sharing and online collaboration

did you know now you can apply tons of theme available on the web to your gtalk messenger easily

This article introduces Empathy, a new Instant Messaging client in GNU/Linux which supports Google Talk, Yahoo, Jabber and several other IM protocols. Empathy is now a default application in GNOME-2.24 and available in all the latest release of popular GNU/Linux distributions like Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu.

Here is this site providing a bunch of gtalk bots, allowing you to save ur and ur friends status messages automatically. Also serves as an online diary.

GTalk is simple yet an excellent tool for connecting with your friends and collegues. Who would not like to add some tweaking to customize it to what you want? You can do this using a registry tweak.

Using Gtalk To Chat In Different Languages

I do feel the need to run two instances of GTalk as one has my personal friends list and the other one pro (Tnerd.com's Network). I'll keep this one short.. ...

Has this ever happened to you. You logged in to gtalk in your office. Now you came home and remembered that you forgot to sign it off and now when you sign in here if some one pings you the message will once come in your current window and once in office window? Has this happened to you? Then this is the tutorial you want!

This tells the trick to access blocked chat applications using Meebo Repeater