Interesting after-effect of Google's 5% AOL purchase: IM is going somewhere.
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(If you're confused, this analogy should clear things up: )
The situation is reminiscent of a Star Trek Next Generation episode where the eccentric ambassador Spock goes to Romulus in order to end the age-old conflict that separated the Vulcan and Romulan people.
