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AIM in Gmail
Today sure is the day for little Gmail tweaks. First they announced Colored Labels, and now AIM integration.With Google's Gmail you can now chat with friends that have an AIM account through the Google Talk interface. When you sign into your AIM account through Gmail, your AIM buddies will be populated in your Contact list. Of course you need an AIM account to use this feature.
To check to see if you have a lucky account (we're sure they'll be rolling this out to all users soon) logout, then log back into your account and click on Settings, from there visit the Chat tab and look at the bottom of the list for the section named AIM. Sign in, and your ready to go.
UPDATE; TIP: Make sure you are signed into Gmail chat in order for AIM chat to be activated.
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Subscribe to commentsrobotrockDec 4th 2007 4:27PM
woot!
still not what we all wanted....aim and gchat interoperability...
jDec 4th 2007 4:49PM
first of all, holy crap. second of all, when are they going to roll out these improvements to the googletalk client (and not just the "gadget")?
HylicDec 4th 2007 5:00PM
Interesting when i log in to my account using opera, the chat feature seams to have disappeared entirely (there isn't even a tab under settings for it) while under IE7 it works fine (and i see the option to log into my AIM account).Masking as Firefox brings back the chat feature but not the option under chat settings to log into AIM.
Also the colored labels don't appear under opera (even if i change them in IE)
plchanDec 4th 2007 5:42PM
I wish they would roll out the new version of the Google Talk for Blackberry so I could chat with users from GTalk, and AIM at the same time.
What I really want is to see they include MSN chat in Gmail :)
michaelDec 4th 2007 5:59PM
If they included WLM in Gmail, that would be remarkable.
But AIM? Meh. I don't even like AIM itself, it just doesn't have a lot of features as the other IM's, annoying ads, and last but least, it's made by AOL.
Chris CareyDec 4th 2007 7:00PM
Its only the tip of the iceberg!
http://www.noheat.com/2007/11/15/more-new-gmail-features-in-the-pipeline/
Tomer CohenDec 4th 2007 7:18PM
ICQ users: Be aware that this announcement can also let you connect to ICQ by supplying ICQ username instead of AIM.
I wrote about it here - http://tomercohen.com (Sorry, Hebrew only).
Richard BaileyDec 5th 2007 12:41PM
Thanks Tomer that worked great!
PeterDec 4th 2007 9:27PM
Works great here, Vietnamese and US English versions
Chris CareyDec 4th 2007 11:57PM
Interesting on the ICQ, going to have to try that.
KarlDec 5th 2007 6:02AM
I have been using that chat-client pidgin (former gaim) to do all that for a couple of years now - so what is new here with this?
KarlDec 5th 2007 12:47PM
yes, right, aim contacts in that gtalk client - right...
note for myself: read carefully before you reply :-)