Gaim is definitely taking the instant messaging industry by storm and putting up a challenge for Trillian to stay alive.

Many users that have been trying the latest version of Opera can now use the GMail Chat features that everyone loves. It is actually a simple process to do this:

It appears that Google is releasing a few more new features to GMail. The features being added are not as huge as the GTalk was but they are still nice to have. You will now be able to add smilies, create tables, insert images, and insert HTML into any message that you compose. Now, before you get excited and go to check it out I will let you know that not everyone has received these features.