Gmail+Chat+AIM...+ICQ Too
Gtlak and AIM are now integrated (announced 2 years Ago when Google took 5% of AOL). but No one has caught the detail yet: in addition to your AIM buddy list you can now include your ICQ buddy list within Google Talk within Gmail.
I am not surprised this detail has not been noticed in the US where ICQ is not so popular compared to AIM. ICQ is pretty popular in some european countries (Russia,Germany, ..). As an ex-ICQ executive i wanted to know if the integration with Gmail was complete
AIM and ICQ are fully compatible (same house) and i logged in this am with my ICQ credentials within Gmail (even if this is indicated within the login window where your AIM credentials are asked) and it worked perfectly
Now you can chat from Gmail with AIM and ICQ.
ICQ is lacking a good web based solution for its IM. There is one but it is not good. Now there is a good one. It is called Gmail (you can also use Meebo or eBuddy but why bother)
How about integrating AOL/ICQ/MSN withing Gtalk client. You guys seem pretty busy working on Gmail chat rather than Gtalk software. If you can´t support simultaneously 3 different alternatives for chat why did you start in first place?
In Gtalk client there is no smiley icons, no group chat, no AOL integration, no, no no...
Posted by: hackbuster | 05 December 2007 at 10:46 AM
Looks like you will never be able to complete with skype :)
Gtalk still does not offer Videocalls or calls to landlines :)
Posted by: miller | 05 December 2007 at 10:49 AM
How about AIM _and_ ICQ at the same time. Gmail only seems to allow to sign in to either AIM _or_ ICQ at the same time. Any way to accomplish this?
Posted by: Wanderer | 11 December 2007 at 12:29 AM
+1 to the question about ICQ and AIM the same time. Any way to get it?
Posted by: Dimath | 19 January 2008 at 03:48 AM