 | Google Adds AIM to Gmail December 04, 2007 9:49pm in tech |
Google has just announced that it has integrated AIM into GMAIL. What does this mean? It means that from GMAIL, you can access and talk to your contacts on AIM from the side chat menu. This is pretty big news as it is I believe that first real integration between the IM companies (AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft, & Google). I mean there are the multiple protocol clients like Adium, Trillian, Pidgin, & even the web clients like Meebo.com, but never done before by the service company. I tried it out, and it runs just like Google Talk. With everything that Google has done to GMAIL lately, I'd be curious to see where else they go. UPDATE: I also just happened to notice that the chat feature in GMAIL now works on Safari, which is great because Safari is my primary browser on my Mac and once the final version is released for Windows, it may very well become my primary brower there too.
Google Integrates AIM into GMAIL [macworld.com] |
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| Google Gives GMail IMAP Support October 25, 2007 1:24pm in tech |
Google is apparently adding the long awaited, long missing feature of having GMail support IMAP. Google has since launch supported POP3, but never IMAP. The main difference between the two of them is that POP3 only has 1 way communication with GMail. While IMAP has 2-way communication. This means that POP3 just downloads the messages to your e-mail client be it Thunderbird, outlook, etc. but it doesn't communicate what you do with that message. If you delete it, it will still be there on the server, just not on your machine. IMAP can do things both ways. It keeps your online GMail and the messages in your client synchronized. You delete it on one side, it's deleted on the other too. I don't know how they're implementing it exactly or how they're gonna deal with the labels and folders, cause I'm still waiting for my account to support IMAP. Google is apparently slowly rolling it out and I guess my account just hasn't been set up yet. IMAP just might make it easier to keep my computers and various operating systems somewhat synchronized. Compared to the way I'm doing it now, it's gotta be faster, but we shall see. |
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