{"id":10958,"date":"2007-12-06T18:07:50","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T15:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/06\/passing-messages-between-google-talk-and-icq\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T18:07:50","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T15:07:50","slug":"passing-messages-between-google-talk-and-icq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/06\/passing-messages-between-google-talk-and-icq\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing messages between Google Talk and ICQ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Recently Google announced that GTalk users can now communicate with AIM users<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I didn’t mention it here and, in fact, didn’t pay it much attention since I don’t use AOL Instant Messenger.\u00c2\u00a0 Why do I suddenly come back to this announcement?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, because my memory played a Grand Failure Play on me.\u00c2\u00a0 Here is a quote from Wikipedia page about ICQ<\/a>:<\/p>\n

ICQ was developed in 1996 by Mirabilis.<\/strong> The company was founded by four young Israelis: Yair Goldfinger, Arik Vardi, Sefi Vigiser and Amnon Amir. After AOL bought it, it was managed by Ariel Yarnitsky and Avi Shechter.
\nAmerica Online acquired Mirabilis on June 8, 1998<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This was almost 10 years ago.\u00c2\u00a0 ICQ is still popular among a few million users.\u00c2\u00a0 AIM is also popular among a few million users.\u00c2\u00a0 Isn’t two popular instant messaging protocols just a little bit too much for one company?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, it’s not too much, if these two protocols share a lot in common.\u00c2\u00a0 Do they?
\nYes, they do.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s why you can go to your Gmail right now, navigate to Chat<\/em> section of the Settings<\/em>, and login into AIM with your ICQ credentials<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 It’ll just work.\u00c2\u00a0 You’ll get all your contacts from the ICQ server populating buddy list of your GTalk.\u00c2\u00a0 You’ll see who is online and who is not.\u00c2\u00a0 You’ll be able to send and receive messages to your ICQ contacts from GTalk. And you’ll have the history of your communications saved in your Gmail in exactly the same way as you have it with GTalk.\u00c2\u00a0 Wow!<\/p>\n

(Note that there this functionality is still very young and there are a few issues here and there, but I’m sure they will be ironed out in the nearest future.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the annoyances for now though is encoding problem when receiving ICQ messages in Russian, and possibly some other languages too.)<\/p>\n

I’m really glad to see such integration.\u00c2\u00a0 I do use Gmail for a lot of communications and contact related work, and having ICQ\/AIM integrated with it helps me to keep it all together.\u00c2\u00a0 Hopefully, there will be more and better integrations with\u00c2\u00a0 other communication tools – Yahoo Messenger, Skype, Twitter…<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Recently Google announced that GTalk users can now communicate with AIM users.\u00c2\u00a0 I didn’t mention it here and, in fact, didn’t pay it much attention since I don’t use AOL Instant Messenger.\u00c2\u00a0 Why do I suddenly come back to this announcement?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, because my memory played a Grand Failure Play on me.\u00c2\u00a0 Here is a … Continue reading Passing messages between Google Talk and ICQ<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[2402,90,2068,1985,2071,284,19],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-aol","tag-communications","tag-google","tag-google-gmail","tag-google-talk","tag-icq","tag-tools"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8054,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/14\/on-instant-messaging\/","url_meta":{"origin":10958,"position":0},"title":"On instant messaging","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"October 14, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Pretty often I get complains from certain people that it is impossible to chat with me online in real-time. 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