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Good News Everyone

Gchat and AIM Will No Longer Require Separate Logins

by Robert Quigley | 2:30 pm, May 8th, 2011

AOL Instant Messenger may no longer be the buzzworthy social media product it once was, but just about everyone over 18 has an account nevertheless. For those people with lengthy AIM contact lists or who work in offices where AIM is still the lingua franca for team communication, but who still use Gmail regularly, AOL and Google have made your life a little easier.

Following a rollout taking place over the course of the next few days, Gmail users will be able to communicate with people on AIM without separately logging into an AIM account, and vice versa. To add an AIM buddy to one’s Gmail contact list, simply enter their email address as username@aol.com. AOL has also made available a bulk importer for bringing AIM contacts into Gmail en masse.

(AIM via Google OS)

  • Gmailin’

    From reading the details though it sounds more like they’re trying to impair Gmail’s AIM functionality – hey great, don’t need to log in separately! But none of your AIM contacts can see you’re online anymore! If you want your friends to see your online status (and therefore be able to actually contact you?) download our wicked awesome AIM desktop client etc. etc.

  • Gmailin’

    From reading the details though it sounds more like they’re trying to impair Gmail’s AIM functionality – hey great, don’t need to log in separately! But none of your AIM contacts can see you’re online anymore! If you want your friends to see your online status (and therefore be able to actually contact you?) download our wicked awesome AIM desktop client etc. etc.

  • Gmailin’

    From reading the details though it sounds more like they’re trying to impair Gmail’s AIM functionality – hey great, don’t need to log in separately! But none of your AIM contacts can see you’re online anymore! If you want your friends to see your online status (and therefore be able to actually contact you?) download our wicked awesome AIM desktop client etc. etc.

  • Gmailin’

    From reading the details though it sounds more like they’re trying to impair Gmail’s AIM functionality – hey great, don’t need to log in separately! But none of your AIM contacts can see you’re online anymore! If you want your friends to see your online status (and therefore be able to actually contact you?) download our wicked awesome AIM desktop client etc. etc.

  • Pomran

    i am sooooo lost. work has an aim chatroom and from that chat room some of us made a blast group that we can vent can the adminsitrators of our aim addresses see our private vent chat room?


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