Instant Mess

Sigh. here is a list of instant messengers i use:

• Google Talk (my default. It integrates seamlessly with my Gmail account. Also, the only open standard and the only no-frills approach, which i like)
• MSN Messenger (most people I know use it, so there is no way to avoid it)
• Skype (used to be fun, SkypeOut is cool, if and when it works)
  
• ICQ (someone i know still uses it)
• Yahoo Messenger (Ok, i have an account)

Yearning for Interoperability. Yahoo is soon going to be talking to MSN, so that's a start. Google Talk is going together with AIM, but the user bases there could not be more different, so that's going to be interesting. Well, it's a start. But the times when i can just use ANY client to reach ANYONE (in the way a traditional phone works, or e-mail, for that matter) appear still to be in the rather distant future.

I know there are clients like Trillian or Gaim, but somehow i haven't taken to them. It's still an account mess and not all features of all the messengers are supported.