Google integrates AIM with GMail
If you are one of those lucky people to have GMail 2.0, Gmail chat now gives you the option to integrate the popular AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) with your GMail account allowing you the option to chat with your AIM buddies right inside GMail. Your AIM buddies will populate your Gmail Contat list and you can search for them just like your GTalk contacts.
Once you’re signed in, just click the down arrow next to your status message and select Sign in to AIM. If this is your first time connecting, you’ll be prompted to enter your AIM screen name and password. Click Connect to continue.
For all the privacy watchers, Google will not store your AIM password. When you first sign in, your AIM password will be forwarded to AOL’s OpenAuth service. AOL will then validate your log-in information and then Google will use a token to sign you into AIM. Googe will then forget your password.
You can learn more about AIM in Gmail here
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July 24th, 2010 at 3:14 am
For a while (in my RSS reader) the title made me feel that, Google had generically implemented it.
August 10th, 2010 at 1:28 am
Google should first inform their usersthat they have added some new features, and then get the users’ consent to implement the features. Otherwise, they should leave the users the option to retain the old Gmail version, which is much faster
August 11th, 2010 at 6:03 am
I am enjoying bot service … Gmail + AOL
August 15th, 2010 at 12:45 pm
This has been a great tool for a while, I love it. You don’t need to have aim installed anymore to use it.
August 17th, 2010 at 5:10 am
This seems to be a good move. AOL weren’t going anywhere lately but with support from Google, AIM can gain a lot of popularity again.
August 17th, 2010 at 10:50 am
It is nice that you don’t have to download AOL I hate what it does to my PC. I didn’t realized they had done this.
August 18th, 2010 at 2:18 am
Hi nice title finding Google integrates AIM with GMail all is very important thanks for it.
August 20th, 2010 at 7:31 pm
Thank you for posting this, I thought it was extremely educational, and it clarified many of the concerns I had.
August 31st, 2010 at 6:33 pm
I like Google mail chat feature better than windows messenger, it lacks other features but at least its reliable
September 7th, 2010 at 5:55 am
Hi today Gmail is very great service all is also reliable thanks for it.
September 8th, 2010 at 1:48 am
I am using the new version of gmail, the features are pretty good.. i particularly like the smily option in the Chat…