Google Talk, AIM and ICQ

December 5, 2007 on 10:40 am | | In General, Software, Web2.0 | 13 Comments

Google announced lately that their messenger built into the GMail web interface supports AIM. No words of ICQ there, but be assured it works fine :) As AIM is somewhat related to ICQ (I’ll spare you the details) you can just use your ICQ # and password and it works fine. Meebo won’t like this as half of its functions are now integrated in GMail. Have fun chatting!

aim-icq2.pngUpdate:  How to use the new feature? Use Settings -> Chat “Sign into a different AIM account” or the “Options” combo box in the chat window (see also screenshot, the AIM icon denotes an AIM contact).

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  1. hmmm, could you please be more specific about “entering you’re ICQ#”? Where exactly?

    Comment by Johannes Liegl — December 5, 2007 #

  2. Tnx for the hint, updated post :)

    Comment by Mathias Lux — December 5, 2007 #

  3. Johannes Liegl, instead of AIM log-in name, insert ICQ number.

    …

    ICQ not good fot none latin ABC, no Unicode support.

    Comment by david2tm — December 5, 2007 #

  4. hmmm, thanks. but I don’t have the “Chat” DIV on the left side as in the picture above – It’s “Quick Contacts” in my Gmail. There is no “options” link at the bottom of this DIV. Did you do anything special to activate the chat feature?

    Comment by Johannes Liegl — December 5, 2007 #

  5. Might depend on the language version .. Johannes: Are you using the English Gmail interface?

    Comment by Mathias Lux — December 5, 2007 #

  6. yes, I switched to it – nothing changed.

    Comment by Johannes Liegl — December 5, 2007 #

  7. Strange enough. I’ve heard about partial roll outs .. might this be possible that I’ve got the feature earlier than you have?

    - mathias

    Comment by Mathias Lux — December 5, 2007 #

  8. Click on the “enable chat” at the bottom of Gmail – you’ll get the extra part for AIM setup in Settings -> Chat. If you disable chat, it disappears.

    Comment by Leonid Mamchenkov — December 6, 2007 #

  9. Thank you Leonid. There is no such “enable chat” link – maybe it’s like Mathias said – partial roll out.

    Comment by Johannes Liegl — December 6, 2007 #

  10. Switch to English(US), English(UK) doesn’t have it.

    Comment by Peter Gabriel — December 6, 2007 #

  11. Johannes,

    it’s either you language (as pointed out already – should be English(US)), or your browser (which should be either MSIE or Firefox).

    Comment by Leonid Mamchenkov — December 7, 2007 #

  12. Thanks a lot Peter and Leonid. After switching to English (US) everything is fine.

    Comment by Johannes Liegl — December 7, 2007 #

  13. [...] works too.The new GMail feature &quotchat with your AIM friends&quot definitely works for icq too.http://www.semanticmetadata.net/2007/12/05/google-talk-aim-and-icq/ICQSpecialty Definition: ICQ. From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia. icq is an instant messaging [...]

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