Comments on: GoogleTalk Gadget Added to Personal Pages

By: Shawn

Shawn — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:33:58 +0000

Stupid…absolutely no use…they pay their employees to do this?

By: thiamteck

thiamteck — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 03:30:27 +0000

yeah, I heard the “ding” sound now. seem like i forget to on my speaker during my first testing. lol

By: Sunny

Sunny — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:06:02 +0000

it would be nice if this widget was available in DHTML for blogs. More traffic and more communications.

By: Louise

Louise — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:37:47 +0000

Hi Ian,

just saw your post. There are some personal homepages that allow publishing (for example Yourminis or Pageflakes). I have found that Pageflakes works really well – takes only 2 minutes to put a nice public homepage together. Mine is: http://www.page...ouise-1971.ashx

Send me an email with your public page link when you are done

Regards
Louise

By: Ian Camarillo

Ian Camarillo — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:54:02 +0000

neato! does anyone know of a service, much like google personalized homepage, that allows others to view your homepage? would be interesting to know if there is anyone out there with similar feeds.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:39:10 +0000

Hey there,

A few notes…

- No, you’re not exposing your contacts when you put this widget on any page. Each person viewing the page just sees his or her OWN contacts, not yours

- Re: linux… hey, we love linux, we use linux; don’t lose hope, honest

- Audio alerts… yep, you hear the same “ding” you get via Google Talk in Gmail.

DISCLAIMER: I work for Google and use GTalk, but don’t work on that team

By: Runa

Runa — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:20:22 +0000

I just installed it and it seems to work well.

By: Max

Max — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:10:50 +0000

I like meebo.com. First of all they combined AIM, Y!M, GT, MSN, ICQ and Jabber into one; it is completely web based; and can place multiple widgets on different web pages to be available to chat with online visitors.

By: USBflashGUY

USBflashGUY — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:11:18 +0000

Just started to use this nifty widget, very cool! Google keeps on going!

By: Avinash

Avinash — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:14:40 +0000

How cool! I tried a few Google Gadgets but never used them because I don’t like Google Personalized Page. But this Google Talk gadget has attracted my whole attention!

I’m gonna put it on my blog.

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:39:50 +0000

And for those who want to include it in his Netvibes Homepage, i create a widget.

http://www.coop...gary.info/talk/

Gary

By: thiamteck

thiamteck — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:55:36 +0000

It will be nice if it have audio alert when getting message. Something like what meebo already have.

By: Denial

Denial — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:27:53 +0000

I must try this gadjet. (-_-)

By: Frank Daley

Frank Daley — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 04:46:05 +0000

And despite the fact that Google infrastructure could never have scaled without Linux, it still looks like Linux desktop users are treated with scorn. There is still no capability for Voice when running the widget on Linux. Not one flavor of GTalk supports Voice for Linux users.

Google can be so absolutely frustrating some times – more so when we were the ones that helped them get started when they were an embryo.

Thanks for nothing Google.

By: Ronald Lewis

Ronald Lewis — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 04:38:15 +0000

I thought I was seeing things when I recognized a name on the Google widget — then, I realized I wasn’t. Seems I’m in everyone’s circles.

By: RYK

RYK — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 04:30:59 +0000

this is a killer

By: Adrian

Adrian — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 04:10:53 +0000

There seems to be a retarded delay, between IM Clients like Gaim and Adium though.
And between the IG chat and people using Gmail Chat

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:04:53 +0000

Not too impressed.

By: Jason Coleman

Jason Coleman — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:55:57 +0000

I feel (in my gut) that those Comscore numbers are off. Who are these people using Yahoo!’s start page? I remember signing up for an account ages ago, but I never go there.

Also, remember the Google Reader numbers that just came out and made everyone’s Feedburner subscribers go up. My guess is that Google homepage accounts for more than 50% of that… Unless there is some way to differentiate between IG and Reader traffic that I don’t know about.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:54:27 +0000

Very cool – however, no reason to pull people away from Netvibes as they’ve had a meebo widget for a while. Although you don’t get the intelligent youtube/picassa parsing, with meebo you can still contact people on other IM networks.

By: Derek Anderson

Derek Anderson — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:06:34 +0000

With the ability to put this on your blog you will expose your contacts to the world and allow anyone to chat them up.

I would like to see a chat to IM gadget for blogs and such.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:57:31 +0000

I just tried it out. Pretty cool, I like the differences between it and the Gmail talk client. I dont use IG though… takes too long to load Ah well.

By: TUFTS vs CITS

TUFTS vs CITS — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:42:52 +0000

Mmmmmmm. Intelligently parsing YouTube links into Talk. I usually do this manually by copy-and-pasting. Wonder how much more intelligently YouTube links can be parsed into Talk conversations?

Always,

TUFTS vs CITS

By: Jonathan Jiang

Jonathan Jiang — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:34:43 +0000

Any sort of chat room function? Like ‘merge tabs’ into one conversation with three people?

Oh what am I still doing on TC i need to get over to my personalized home and add this gadget.

By: Saket Kumar

Saket Kumar — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:12:33 +0000

I use Google IG extensively and was waiting for this kind of gadget for long time. Great one.

One little issue with the configuration menu, it is hidden behind the main talk widget. (Firefox 2.0)