The resourceful Om Malik figures out a key part of the Google puzzle.  He claims that the new product to be introduced by the search engine giant will be an IM client using Jabber (self-proclaimed "the Linux of IM" - hey, if their stuff works for AOL and Orange, then why not Google?).  Om also points to a couple of extra hints: the talk.google.com URL, which redirects you to a google.com/talk with a 404 message (site not found) with a secure XMPP server waiting for connections. 

In the meantime, here are the del.icio.us tags on Google & Jabber...  this will be an ongoing thread.

Note: on the above link, there is a good piece by Sean Kerner highlighting, among other things that with the Blogger acquisition, Google also got some IM technology (called Hello).

Robert Scoble writes about ScreenCastsOnline, a site that "contains downloadable and streaming screencasts to give you tips and hints in using many mac and web based applications. Windows users are welcome to access the screencasts as many of the demos will be cross platform or platform independent." 

Definitely worth a visit...