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Google Adds Chat To Gmail

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the wouldn't-be-a-weekday-without-a-google-story dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Am I the only one? by skiman1979 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    well your IMs aren't really private unless you use some form of encryption. Even then, it would depend on the type of encryption you use.

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  2. Re:Logging by AKAImBatman · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think this thing is a good idea (not the logging, the chat-inside-mailapp). I wonder if you get marked as "online" whenever you check your Mail on mail.google.com...

    I think both features are good. Logging can be incredibly useful when you're using IM for online meetings and collaboration. (Such as in OSS projects.) To date I've been using a ChatBot to collaborate and record the conversations. This would free me to just record all my conversations, then move the interesting parts to the wiki as necessary.

    Way to go Google!

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  3. Re:Logging by AKAImBatman · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I just fear that google, without you knowing, would log what you chat about!

    What's to stop them from doing this now?

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