http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/01/aol-tests-jabber-gateway.html

Does anyone know what became of this? It has almost been a year now. It would be great if they would pull through and we could have true interoperability between AIM and google talk.

Sadly, nothing new has come so far. I really hope they haven't abandoned the idea. Users should really put more pressure on AOL for this

For now i'd like to at least be able to connect to aim using whatever transport google uses within gmail so at least i'll have my logs stored there.