Sunday, January 01, 2006

Google Talk To Interoperate With AIM

As one element of the finalized deal between Google and AOL. the Google talk (gtalk) instant messaging solution will become interoperable with AIM: from AOL and Google Formalize Partnership to Include Shared Selling of Ads - New York Times by Saul Hansell Notably, AOL will allow users of Google's new Google Talk instant messaging system to chat with users of AOL's messaging network, the largest in the country. Until now, AOL has resisted linking its system with those run by its major rivals - including Yahoo and Microsoft, which recently agreed to link their own. It does connect to Apple Computer's message system and several services aimed at corporate users. There will be a somewhat complex procedure to link the two systems, however. Google Talk users will need to add an AOL screen name to communicate with other AOL users. Bah, that's not complicated. That's what we do already with iChat. This will open the door to all sorts of interesting cross-pollination, like the IM presence of the senders of Gmail. Sure, Google could have tried innovating these sorts of things with Gtalk, prior to the integration, but the user base is infinitesimal. All of a sudden, logging into Gtalk or other services in Google -- for email, search history, or any thing else -- could lead to all sorts of presence information about the millions of AIM users out there

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