Now it is possible to talk to your AIM® Buddies via your Gmail web-interface. Note that this is not a federation of Google and AOL, in other words, it is not the ability to add AIM Buddies to your Gmail/Google Talk contacts.
Follow up:
This will work if you have an AIM account, just like me. Gmail is using Open AIM, which has always been the leader in providing you with new ways to communicate by making AIM service into an open and dynamic platform.
Check this screenshot:
Oh, just below that screenshot is the “Colored Labels” feature in Gmail which I only noticed today.