Googlified

It’s for real this time, you can now chat with your buddies on AIM in Gmail Chat, as spotted by a reader of Google Operating System last month. Google is currently slowly rolling out this new feature to IE7 and Firefox 2 users with English as their language in Gmail.

You should be seeing an option in the Settings page under the Chat tab where you can sign into AIM if Gmail already had this feature enabled for you. If not, you can just sit back and wait for a few days, or give it a shot to see if changing your language setting in Gmail and the browser will work - as you are so eager to see it. :)

Your contacts from AIM will have the little icon next to the name when the person is online.

I think that Google Talk (desktop and the flash version) will also include this feature on their next release. Believe or not, Austin is the only person I have on AIM. :)