AIM Coming to Gmail
Talk November 8th, 2007 - By Haochi
Ionut of Google Operating System has some screen shots suggesting that AIM is coming to Gmail as part of the Chat feature, and potentially Google Talk.
We have been talking about AIM coming to GTalk since Google invested $1 billion in AOL two years ago. Part of the agreement states that they will enable toe communication between AIM and Google Talk, “provided certain conditions are met.”
We waited, and waited.
Earlier this year, Googler Justin Uberti, who worked on AIM at AOL for 9 years and now working on integrating AIM and GTalk, said that it “should be available in the near future.” And last month, celebrating his first Googleversary, he posted on his blog that he’s now working on an “extra-awesome” project.
The last time I check, there’s only one contact in my AIM, who goes to school with me.
*Oh, Google also has a deal with Skype…
[screenshots from Google Operating System]
November 9th, 2007 at 11:02 am
i think we gonna use icq, msn, yahoo IMs on gmail soon:)))
November 9th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
And iChat under Leopard explicitly supports Gtalk; it always supported AIM. Google’s executive is on Apple’s board. All very interesting, nu?
November 9th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
If you put it this way, Pidgin supports GTalk (Jabber, specifically), AIM, Yahoo IM, MSN, et cetera… Actually, the project leader of Pidgin, Sean Egan, works at Google.