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AIM inside GMail

Posted on Dec 06, 2007 under General, technology | No Comment

Like the MSN(Windows Live Messenger) & yahoo messenger integration happens some times before ,Market rivals AOL and Google joined hand now.So now you can use your AIM inside gmail .Gmail also added some more features like colored labeling,Smilies and conferencing facilities for chat,IMAP integration for iphone users.More details are here.
So what’s cool among these.I have no AIM id, so i do sign up and checked , it works fine and looks simpler than meebo from UI perspective and faster than meebo as there is only plain texts.Comparatively meebo become a social chat application integrating every major IM’s and adding lot of cool addons like games ,video/audio chat,conferencing etc.What i really wonder is how a small team like meebo did integrated every major IM’s but all those who provide those are integrating it in a slower pace like the two examples.Is there any legal issues or any policy within their own organizations like not to offer competitor’s service?

Next colored labels,Which i feel is only useful for power users of mail ,those who uses it for their business purpose .users like me don’t even use the label feature .But i love those smilies and conferencing in chat .Smilies are limited but add some life.Conferencing is great,Yet i have to test it with some friends but seems cool.Overall there is some improvement in GMail in functionality ,will wait for some more.