Maybe you will will be surprised when you logged on your Gmail account to chat to your friends and see that you can also chat on your AIM friends. Gmail blog have an explanation about this on their new feature.

Today we are happy to tell you about a new feature we’ve started to roll out which will enable you to sign into your AIM account and chat with your AIM buddies right inside Gmail. When you log in to AIM through Gmail chat, your AOL buddies will appear in your chat list with friends from your Google Talk network, and you will see the yellow “running man” logo to the right of your AIM friends’ screen names. To your AIM friends it will look like you are logged in to AIM as usual.

This is a good addition to the service, but still users looking for more. Will they integrate other chat application like MSN, Yahoo, Jabber and others? If they do, then this will be a big update on gmail with its chat features.

Other components or features that we should request is the ability to send free text messages to a mobile phone just like what Yahoo did on their Yahoo Mail.