I use google talk quite a bit. I was browsing around in it today and noticed something interesting.

If you click on contacts, then pick a contact and edit it, you can specify (among other) MSN and Yahoo addresses for people to chat with.

I know gtalk is jabber-ish. Is this option new? I don't recall being able to do it before. The implication is that the n8x0 talk client should be able to connect to other services without using jablet.