David Carrington » GTalk http://davidcarrington.co.uk UK web developer that loves phones Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:53:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Gmail with AIM support is not a new feature http://davidcarrington.co.uk/2007/12/gmail-with-aim-support-is-not-a-new-feature/ http://davidcarrington.co.uk/2007/12/gmail-with-aim-support-is-not-a-new-feature/#comments Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:09:04 +0000 David Carrington http://davidcarrington.co.uk/2007/12/05/gmail-with-aim-support-is-not-a-new-feature/ Google Blog is covering Gmail’s latest new feature: AIM support. Has anyone else noticed that this isn’t new at all? I’ve been using Gmail (or more specifically, GTalk) for ICQ and MSN since January 2006. I don’t have any need for AIM, but that doesn’t mean I couldn’t add that too.

I’ve already got Gmail storing my MSN logs, my ICQ logs, and everything else. Pretty much all Google have accomplished here is to a) sign a deal with AOL to create an official Jabber transport for AIM, and b) change the Gmail interface slightly.

I’m not all negative though! With Google comes stability. I’ve had to switch Jabber transports quite a few times for MSN, since I’ve had trouble finding stable servers. I’d really appreciate if Google could create a stable transport for MSN and offer that out in the same way.

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