Connecting Google Talk to AIM, MSN, and/or Yahoo

// January 23rd, 2006 // My Stuff, Technology Bits

I’ve been using Google Talk lately as my IM client, but a lot of my annoying friends and family still use the advertisement heavy and intrusive AIM client. I’d still like to be able to talk with them, but I want to only use one IM client.

Someone figured out a sweet way to accomplish this using the Jabber protocol as an intermediary. Check out the instruction here. Basically you make the bridge using PSI initially, then you can go back to Google Talk. It is slightly cumbersome, but the results rule.

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8 Responses to “Connecting Google Talk to AIM, MSN, and/or Yahoo”

  1. mike says:
    January 31, 2006 at 10:26 am

    This looks neat, but I’m still attached to AIM considering everyone I know uses it. There are ways to disable ads on AIM via third party software such as deadAim or if you are ambitious enough you can always resource hack it.
    A while ago I really went to town on modding it (also with blackbox 4 windows)

  2. mike says:
    January 31, 2006 at 10:32 am

    heh, you can tell that desktop screen is from a few years ago. I still had aol installed for when I was at my parents house *shiver* and I had firebird (or maybe its pheonix?) at any rate old build of firefox.

  3. zbtirrell says:
    January 31, 2006 at 11:06 pm

    For months now I’ve been still using AIM “because everyone uses it”, but I don’t have to do what everyone else does now. I can happily use Google Talk to talk with anyone who uses whatever the heck IM network excites them.

    Of all people Mike, I need to throw you a big old No Sheep!

  4. indraneel says:
    August 20, 2006 at 1:49 pm

    but you can’t check an AIM profile!!

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