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May 7, 2011 11:57 pm GMT

Soon, AOL's AIM Won't Require A Separate Login To Chat With Contacts In Gmail

Since 2007, you've been able to sign in to your AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) account to chat with your AIM contacts directly from Gmail. You simply login with your AIM account in Gmail and your contacts will populate your gChat list, allowing you to chat with them just like you would your Google Talk contatcs. From this notice, it looks like changes may be afoot to this feature. From AIM's notice, In the next few days, Google and AOL are working together to change the way you connect to AIM buddies within Gmail. After this change, Gmail and AIM users can talk directly to each other without having to log into both services (you will no longer be able to log into AIM within Gmail's "Chat" section).

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