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Google Adds Chat To Gmail
Nathan Weinberg writes "Google has added a chat feature to Gmail. It brings Google Talk, minus voice calls, into your webmail client. Gmail now also logs your IMs, whether they originate in Gmail or Google Talk. In the commentary at InsideGoogle, I note that Google recommends you disable Firefox's AdBlock, which can block Google's ads, if you want Gmail Chat to function properly."
AC: Hey! What you been up to? :-D :-\ :-P ;-) :-$ :-D :-\ ... yeeeeaaaah.. I just wanted to help you make dinner ;) :-O
GCA: same old same old. workin 9-5 sux teh bawls
AC: tell me about it! i hardly have time to utorrent warez anymore
GCA: Hey, I've got a quick and easy site you can go to for warez if you want. 8-)
AC: nah, that's okay, I've got to go make dinner.
GCA: whatcha makin?
AC: just some chicken and some veggies
GCA: you could spice up that chicken with some worchester sauce
AC: No... I'm good thanks.
AC: What's up with all the links, Allison?
GCA: Allison?
AC: Aren't you Grand Canyon Alli? From the spring break trip?
GCA:
AC: OMG You're a Google Chat Advertiser!!
You can unblock my ads when you pry it from my cold...no, wait...I'll uninstall Adblock when I pry it from your...no, that's not it...I'll pry Adblock from...
Ain't gonna happen.
You must live in China!
Actually, this was technology that google had to incorporate in order to get Google Talk into China...all chat logs are BCC'd to the chinese government...
That was one of the most rambling posts I've ever tried to read. Pimping a blog or something? Get to the point already.
This guy is way out there
"Yeah, like I need a whole in my head."
That is a wholly flawed argument.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
If protection of productivity was their motive, I think they'd block /.
nothing
Thats why you don't give them the key, nothing better than removing the human element from security!
I don't want to gtalk-advertise anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to gtalk-advertise anything bought or processed, or buy anything gtalk-advertized or processed, or process anything gtalk-advertized, bought, or processed, or repair anything gtalk-advertized, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.
"Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important." (Lisa Hoffman)
Google recommends you disable Firefox's AdBlock,
Oh, well fuck that then.
Terrorists can attack freedom, but only Congress can destroy it.
Where I work we have an internal Jabber server and Psi/Exodus/Kopete clients. When people want to ask a simple question they don't walk to the other person; even if the question is not simple and requires a meeting it's still easier to find out if the other guy is here and free to talk, and not on lunch or already in another meeting... saves time and stops this wasteful walking, which can lead to exercise :-)