GTalk on GMail
Submitted on February 13th, 2006 by admin
Filed under Email and Productivity and Services
I’ve been hearing all over the net that Google would implement GTalk service into Gmail window. They’ve finally rolled it out over the weekend and it’s pretty slick! All in AJAX coding and runs very smoothly. On your left side under your Filters there is a Quick Contacts bar which acts as your “buddy lists”. If you see someone on, you would see a little green dot. And to message them you just double+click the name and a small chat box pops up inside the current window on the bottom right corner. It is stuck to the bottom of the page, so if you try scrolling it won’t scroll up or down. It also has a minimize button to hide it away when reading emails. It’s not something you would use all the time like AIM or MSN messenger, but it’s a great alternative and a quick way to contact someone with out logging into 3rd party clients. By the way, you can turn on an Auto-save chat feature in settings for Gmail to automatically save your chat history in to a seperate category in Gmail.
*sidenote* Not everyone will have the new GTalk feature in their Gmail box just yet. I’ve been reported that some folks still don’t have the new service.
February 13th, 2006 at 3:45 pm
One thing to notice is that you should log NOT in https as the chat feature only works in http.
February 13th, 2006 at 4:29 pm
oh man… thank you for letting me know that. I DID NOT know that. =)
February 20th, 2006 at 12:08 pm
hehe… this gtalk is fun., First in the world…
February 21st, 2006 at 10:39 pm
Alfredo:
They must have fixed that issue because its working just fine in https.