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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12-04-2007 @ 4:27PM
robotrock said...
woot!
still not what we all wanted....aim and gchat interoperability...
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12-04-2007 @ 4:49PM
j said...
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")?
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12-04-2007 @ 5:00PM
Hylic said...
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)
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12-04-2007 @ 5:42PM
plchan said...
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 :)
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12-04-2007 @ 5:59PM
michael said...
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.
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12-04-2007 @ 7:00PM
Chris Carey said...
Its only the tip of the iceberg!
http://www.noheat.com/2007/11/15/more-new-gmail-features-in-the-pipeline/
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12-04-2007 @ 7:18PM
Tomer Cohen said...
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).
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12-05-2007 @ 12:41PM
Richard Bailey said...
Thanks Tomer that worked great!
12-04-2007 @ 9:27PM
Peter said...
Works great here, Vietnamese and US English versions
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12-04-2007 @ 11:57PM
Chris Carey said...
Interesting on the ICQ, going to have to try that.
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12-05-2007 @ 6:02AM
Karl said...
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?
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12-05-2007 @ 12:47PM
Karl said...
yes, right, aim contacts in that gtalk client - right...
note for myself: read carefully before you reply :-)