Or any other IM service, I don’t care, it’s just that Google are big and open protocol and have a nice clean interface, as Nick said, ‘this is like msn yonks ago - it’s great’…

• RSS/ATOM to IM client, I think Miranda might do this allready but I’ve never got that to work.
• The Guardian’s over by over cricket coverage delivered straight to my IM client along with one line ball by ball score updates.