Google has struck a deal with AOL that allowed them to add AIM support to Gmail. You can now access AIM from the Gmail Web site (if you’re running the new version of Gmail). I was hoping the announcement meant interoperability between the two networks, but that goal seems more distant all the time.
December 5, 2007 at 10:20 pm
Doesn’t seem to be a good sign for the uptake of the gtalk desktop client if they implemented this in gmail first. I would have expected a simultaneous release at the least. Oh well, I’m still glad