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Yahoo!, MSN, and AOL might or might not feel threatened by
Google Talk, but VoIP provider Skype apparently is
anticipating some heat, because it
announced that it is opening its voice-talk
platform to third-party development. Google Talk is an open platform, and Google is posturing about Yahoo!, MSN, and
AOL making their IM machines interoperable—which they have little motivation to do, in my opinion. At least, right
now. But if the open-development movement starts turning out compelling applications, created by people better in touch
with what consumers want than the heavy-handed IM clients provided by the Big Three, then the market might become
fragmented enough to force everyone to take down their walls.
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