Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

So this comes up in my Reader today:

Google Talk Translation Bot

WHOA! I think. Did Google just release a UT for GTalk?

No, it is much more mundane. Basically they just have XMPP bots that will translate messages sent to them. How completely uninteresting. Why couldn't they have made an XMPP filter that you could message and have it auto convert languages for you while you chat with someone else? Come to think of it, why can't we put this in Gmail too?