Even though Google Talk and AIM aren’t officially integrated together (they will be eventually), there’s still a way to use Google Talk as a universal IM client via Jabber and some other stuff. Click here to learn how! If anyone’s having trouble following the instructions (I know I had a few “so, uh, what now?” moments), just leave a comment and I’ll try to help I haven’t had a real conversation with this hack yet since I just set it up, but if anything awesomely good or bad happens, I’ll let you know … only thing I don’t like is you can’t view people’s profiles.

Gmail also introduced a cool feature recently — you can now add things like phone numbers, alternate email addresses, real addresses, etc. to your Contacts. It was enough so that I moved everything from my Yahoo Address Book to Gmail — good riddance to crappy, ad-infested sites! Oh yeah, and if anyone happens to be wanting a Gmail invite, I have plenty.

Edit: Google Talk’s connection to AIM kept dying, so for the time being I’ll stick with the real AIM.