Dec 04 2007
Gmail Adds AIM Support
Dec 04, ‘07 — Gmail rolled out a new feature to make it even more convenient and useful to chat from Gmail: AIM support.
Now you can now chat with all your AIM buddies right inside Gmail. Just click on the upside-down triangle next to “set status here” in your Gmail chat and select “Sign into AIM” from the drop down menu. Once you’ve entered your AIM log-in information, your AIM contacts will appear intermingled among your Gmail contacts, and you can select an AIM contact and chat with them directly.
This is just one of the first new features Google’s email service launched using Gmail’s new code structure. This is rolling out in the newest English version of Gmail first and will be available in other languages soon. More at Google.