Wow, Gmail has been adding lots of new stuffs these days, first we have group chats and emoticons landing in Gmail, then we are given color palettes to colorize our labels. And if you signed in to your Gmail now, you will get to see an option to sign in to your AIM account from Gmail Chat and chat with your AIM buddies from there.

After signing in you will be able to see your AIM buddies being integrated into your Gmail Chat buddies. AIM buddies will be showed with a AIM yellow man icon beside the contact.

Perhaps the recent improvements to Gmail are a get ready for an integration of AIM into Gmail Chat. Users had been anticipating this coming in from Gmail since screenshots has been posted 1 month ago. Seems that it is finally integrated for public use now.
madison downs says:
i think thAT AIM IS A AWESOME IDEA TO HAVE ON GMAIL! !!!!!!
15 July 2008, 11:02 pm