http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/12/AR2009031203090.html

Will AOL finally adopt jabber!?
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/01/aol-tests-jabber-gateway.html
(they shut this down though)

"Will AOL finally adopt jabber!?"

I love how that was your first thought :D

That's DPic, always one for Open Standards :)

I am also hoping for it though, now that you brought it up...

Well besides open standards, i can finally ditch AIM and talk to AIM users with GTalk. Although yes, open standards ftw, it's because open standards just make life awesome. =]