Lost AIM access in Gmail chat? Check your language settings

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Did you know that you can chat with your AIM buddies using Gmail's built-in chat? It's actually been a feature since 2007, but at some stage it seems like Google hid it away. For some reason, if you're using any display language other than English (US), you can't use the AIM integration.

Fortunately, it's just a matter of hitting Settings in the top right of Gmail and changing the Gmail Display Language to English (US). You can then sign into AIM by clicking the little down arrow next to your Gmail chat status.

Of course, this doesn't help you if you want to use a non-American display language. It doesn't even work with British English! Crazy.

Lost AIM access in Gmail chat? Check your language settings originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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For Apple, AT&T Is The Company You Sleep With, Verizon Is The Company You Marry

Have you heard the news? The Verizon iPhone is coming. Today, Fortune has the 15th or so confirmation that the device will launch in early 2011. There's way too much smoke now for there not to be a fire. But even more interesting than that tidbit is Fortune's interview with Ivan Seidenberg, the CEO of Verizon. He wouldn't speak directly about a Verizon iPhone launch, but he still had plenty to say about the device, and Apple's CEO Steve Jobs. The most interesting thing he had to say was the last bit about the iPhone in the piece:

According to Seidenberg, Jobs told him during a December 2009 meeting, "Decisions you made [at Verizon] are decisions we would make at Apple."

That sounds like it's Jobs more or less saying that he respects Verizon because they stood up to him. They wouldn't�compromise�on their vision.

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Google Ventures Invest In HomeAway At $1.4 Billion Valuation

Google Ventures has invested in Austin, Texas based HomeAway, a vacation home rental service, at a $1.4 billion valuation, we've heard from a source. The New York Times first broke the story, but doesn't have details on valuation or amount invested. Our source says Google Ventures invested somewhere around $25 million in the company. Google Ventures bought stock directly from existing shareholders and the money isn't being injected into HomeAway. The valuation was set in the last round of financing, a massive $250 million raise in 2008.

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Offsite for Google Chrome helps you discover related content

Filed under: Google, Browsers

Full disclosure: AOL is DownloadSquad's parent company

AOL has been busy re-tooling itself ever since head honcho Tim Armstrong took the reigns, and one area that has received a lot of attention is social networking and content discovery. Lifestream is, perhaps, AOL's biggest social app, and now there's a second: Offsite.

Currently, Offsite is available as an extension for Google Chrome. Once installed, simply click the icon in your Omnibar (or the folded-over page corner in the top left) to load the Offsite overlay. The page you're currently viewing slides down and to the right, with relevant tweets taking the left column and related posts from other websites appears at the top (image after the break). A stream of trending topics is also shown, and Digg, Twitter, and AOL Mail sharing buttons are provided. Offsite also displays the page's "heat index," giving you a vague idea how popular it is right now.

Unlike AOL Lifestream for Chrome, Offsite loads in a flash. While it's handy in its current state, I'd like to see the sharing options tweaked. Facebook should be an option, and support for other email providers (and even the good old mailto:) would be a welcome improvement.

I'd also like to see this implemented as a bookmarklet so that users of other browsers can use Offsite -- which shouldn't be hard, given the nature of most Chrome extensions.

The Offsite header bar

Offsite for Google Chrome helps you discover related content originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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