---
title: "Google Talk and AIM talks"
description: "<p>I’m sure you all have heard by now that <a href="http://www.google.com/"><strong>Google</strong></a> and <a href="http://www.aol.com/"><strong>AOL</strong></a> have signed a deal in which part of it is to enable Google Talk and AIM users to communicate with each other.</p>
<p><a href="http://talk.google.com/"><strong>Google Talk</strong></a> is based on the open XMPP (<a href="http://www.jabber.org/"><strong>Jabber</strong></a>) standard which has built in abilities to work with gateways that enables this protocol to communicate with other protocols.</p>
<p>I just hope Google will use some of the Jabber/AIM bridges such as <a href="http://aim-transport.jabberstudio.org/"><strong>AIM/ICQ-Transport</strong></a> to make this thing work.</p>"
doc_version: "1"
last_updated: "2017-06-02"
date: 2005-12-21
tags: [AIM, Google, Google Talk, Jabber, XMPP]
canonical: "https://eran.sandler.co.il/2005/12/21/google-talk-and-aim-talks/"
---

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I&#8217;m sure you all have heard by now that [**Google**][1] and [**AOL**][2] have signed a deal in which part of it is to enable Google Talk and AIM users to communicate with each other.

[**Google Talk**][3] is based on the open XMPP ([**Jabber**][4]) standard which has built in abilities to work with gateways that enables this protocol to communicate with other protocols.

I just hope Google will use some of the Jabber/AIM bridges such as [**AIM/ICQ-Transport**][5] to make this thing work.

 [1]: http://www.google.com/
 [2]: http://www.aol.com/
 [3]: http://talk.google.com/
 [4]: http://www.jabber.org/
 [5]: http://aim-transport.jabberstudio.org/