Google have entered the online chat game, with a new client that includes text base and voip chat. As is the way with google at the moment, the application only supports Windows OS.
Google Talk is based on Jabber, so anybody with an appropriate client, like me (I use adium), can connect to the jabber server (talk.google.com) and authenticate with your gmail details.

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