OK, the rabbit hole of web based, multiple provider IM clients is driving me nuts. Trillian and IM+ both are good, but Google doesn't want to play with them. Which defeats the purpose of this exercise for me as I want to be able to see both providers in the same place. Yet all the support for getting Google to play with the IM Cliets is out of date, like years out of date, and since Google switched from Talk to Hangouts this year (and from an open chat to a more secure one), none of what I am finding is working.
However, there seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel...almost. Playing on a hunch, I decided to see if Google Hangouts would play with AIM; since Google bought out Meebo, I figured it was worth a shot. Online searching seems to support this, but with the switch to Hangouts, the AIM contact importer that AOL so thoughtfully created doesn't seem to work. Supposedly though, you can manually add AIM contacts to your Google Hangouts and thus chat.
So, anyone with an AIM account mind playing guinea pig with me? Just want to try to add you and send a message.
