"Word is that now that Google has purchased a stake in AOL, the two companies will allow their VoIP services' users to talk to each other.The end result of that, in my opinion, is two fold. To begin with, this interoperability should give the two companies an advantage over rival Instant Messenger-like VoIP services offered by Skype, MSN and Yahoo. Google, in particular, is likely to benefit: Until now, many Internet users might have hesitated to use Google's VoIP service for fear that they'd be left out of communications loop since all of their friends used AOL Instant Messenger (IM). Now, they won't have to worry about that."
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