Gmail Browser Chat
Good gravy, I am swarmed with chat messages from my friends who have simultaneously discovered that Gmail is porting Google Talk directly into their Gmail browser window. I knew about it first, but no matter how often I refresh my browser, the feature hasn't propagated to my account yet. In the middle of a huge Gmail chatfest, I'm still using the desktop client.
The nice thing is, though, that they will finally get on Google Talk! I love Google Talk. One of the unfortunate things about other instant message clients is that I don't have the same archived messages on one computer that I do at another. Google Talk is now archived and searchable from within Gmail.
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temujin9 on Feb. 8, 2006 11:49 PM
Google does regional rollouts of features, to keep the number of error reports managable. You just happened to be at the end of the list, I think.
matt-arnold on Feb. 8, 2006 11:52 PM
Everyone who messaged me lived in the same state as me.
temujin9 on Feb. 9, 2006 12:27 AM
Doesn't mean they were necessarily in the same region, though it's more likely. I have no idea how they decide regions; if it's by IP address, then physical locale won't matter.
ericthemage on Feb. 9, 2006 1:11 AM
Google Talk is now archived and searchable from within Gmail.
*tinfoil helmet mode*
Now all of your chats are archived with Big Brother. :)
ericthemage on Feb. 9, 2006 3:23 AM
Oh, and today I also saw chat in my gmail. Yours must be coming soon.
wolfger on Feb. 10, 2006 11:26 AM
If it's any consolation, I'm not seeing chat in Gmail either...
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