Gmail chat add's aim support

Gmail has recently been rolling out new features to their email interface rather fast, last week they added coloured labels (sigh) and now their most recent additon allows you to login to your AIM account through Gmail chat..
It is sorta nice, but probably wont be much use to me..

I was hoping that Aim would have changed their protocol to Jabber so instead of having to have an AIM account and sign in you would be able to just add the contacts email and start chatting right away...
Oh and one thing also the "running man" as Google puts it really helps to destroy how clean and empty Gmail looks.