I was chatting with my USC grad student on the Google Talk, and her picture changed. You know, the picture for her avatar, the one you stick in there, and then people can see a face or picture of an automatic dog or flower or other such nonsense. That's not really the important part.

Up until 12 am, Eastern Standard Time, on November 13th, 2006, my hacked up version of iChat couldn't show it off. And by "hacked up," I mean "not really Google Talk." As I was talking to my USC grad student, her avatar changed. That wasn't something that ever happened before November 13th, 2006, 12 am, Eastern Standard Time.

Now iChat users can see the user avatars from Google Talk users. Life just can't get any better.

Well, not unless we could get rid of the BCS, but that's something totally different.

Also, in more Earth-shattering news, Java's going opensource.

status: published
lastmod: '2006-11-13T06:16:55.000Z'
author: John Stansbury
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