Just in case you were wondering
To clarify what I predict will be a misperception: This new Gmail feature doesn’t let you talk to AIM contacts from GTalk.
What it does is allow you to sign into AIM from Gmail. In other words, Gmail is now an AIM client as well as a Google Talk client. But you can’t send messages to your AIM-using friends using only a GTalk account: You need an AIM account, and you need to log in with it (in Gmail or otherwise), and you can only send messages to your AIM contacts from your AIM account, not your GTalk account.
So it really doesn’t work much differently from what you already get in Adium. You add both accounts, and Adium (or Gmail) figures out which account to use on the contact you opened a chat with.
My point is that the only people this affects are those who send IMs from Gmail. For the rest of us, this doesn’t really change anything: there’s still no inter-service messaging between AIM and GTalk.
December 5th, 2007 at 4:42 AM
this is so lame! even microsoft and yahoo did it better…
December 5th, 2007 at 8:39 AM
Adium for GMail would be nice
December 5th, 2007 at 9:35 AM
Yeah, this is pretty lame – dare I say useless to us mac users that already have a client that is leaps and bounds better than the gmail chat interface.
BTW, Adium dudes, how about adding on the new openid login feature for comments to your blogger account?
December 5th, 2007 at 4:39 PM
1.2¿ where is it? i mean you should guys tell us, a timeline to wait for it
December 5th, 2007 at 9:41 PM
I think this is a pretty useful feature in GMail for those users that can’t use a proper client at work or at school because of network restrictions.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:04 PM
Timeline: http://trac.adiumx.com/timeline
Roadmap: http://trac.adiumx.com/roadmap
–Thats when Adiumx 1.2 comes out
December 12th, 2007 at 12:31 AM
so 1.2 isn’t going to be a big update anyway, is it? i’m salivating over the thought of 2.0, though :p
December 12th, 2007 at 12:55 AM
I would count 1.2 being pretty big with the SoC projects coming in. 1.2 should be huge for jabber users.
December 18th, 2007 at 4:45 PM
I assumed it was just using a server gateway – they exist for Jabber -> AIM and Jabber -> MSN. It’s kind of a cool idea IMHO.
February 19th, 2008 at 4:16 AM
The advantage of this feature is that the logs are stored in GMail. It would have been nice to have been able to use Adium and have my logs in gmail. That would have allowed “search anywhere” of my logs.