Google Talk gets more complete as of now. After two weeks since AOL has admitted to be working with Google on a new feature, the IM of the two companies can talk to each other. Less than an obstacle towards a digital world of interoperability, I must say.
While the announcement is not official (or AOL or Google talked about the issue for now) was the traditional Pidgin developer who discovered the news. He who makes a living by developing an alternative that integrates multiple IM messenger services, said interworking "magically began to work for me."
The guy who uses Google Talk as your main IM service may, with the change, add users of AIM, AOL messenger old school. To do so, just send add a new contact and write the address of e-mail@aol.com. At first such communication is not possible until the user authorizes the addition of AIM.
Same story goes for anyone who uses AIM. Simply go to add new contact and put the address instead. According to The Next Web, even status messages appear in both services as well as warning that "John Doe is typing."
It is worth remembering that Google Talk was launched precisely because of such interoperability, which makes it easy for different services communicate with each other. Based on the XMPP protocol, it can quietly talk with other services and applications that use the protocol. Just missing communicate with IM big (like Messenger, for example). However, the companies responsible for these services use proprietary protocols and appear to be less interested in the interworking of protocols and services.
The importance of AIM in this story is the scope of IM, which (if I remember correctly) has been the most widely used of the United States. With the decline of AOL, imagine what happened to him over the years in the wilderness.
