aim gtalk question

Steve Rubel brought up some old news today about the Google Talk and AIM deal that was announced exactly one year ago. Yes, one year has passed, and there is no sign of when Google Talk will start communicating with one of the world’s most popular instant message program, AIM.

He points out that, in the agreement, it says, “Enabling Google Talk and AIM instant messaging users to communicate with each other, provided certain conditions are met.” So far, it seems that one side has not yet met the conditions they wanted.

“It’s also possible that AOL is not delivering the advertising value Google had hoped to earn when it plowed in a billion bucks to save it.” Steve said. Or maybe it is Google Talk’s fault, on not having enough user base AOL asked for.