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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. whatever! by sinucus · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm sorry, but there is no way that I will disable Adblock to gain access to ay "feature" that google may offer. I love my google services as much as the next guy but there is no way that I will give up my ad free existance for it. Not when there are so many other free alternatives out there that do allow me to "hack" out the ads

  2. Reimplementing AOL by GigsVT · · Score: -1, Troll

    Pretty soon Google will reach the level of sophistication AOL offered in 1993. Amazing.

    I wonder when they'll install a way to access Gopher and FTP sites?

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  3. Re:Way more than "partial excitement." by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Holy sweet Christ, how's the Kool-Aid today? I would LOVE to save your post to shove down your throat when the day arrives that Google starts acting like a capitalist enterprise, but I really don't care about it or you enough to bother.

  4. too-much-contact-with-contacts by Kuku_monroe · · Score: -1, Troll

    You can try to run, but not to hide. Now all your contacts can track your every move while in Gmail. Say byebye to your personal-internet-privacy while the google team decides wheter or not to put a "invisible" button/option

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  5. This FP for 9gNAA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    These e4r7y

  6. Hideous by ozziegt · · Score: 0, Troll

    Has anyone even looked at the screenshots? The UI is cluttered and confusing. On top of that how do they PUSH new IMs to you in a web-based client?

  7. Took Google long enough.... by Khyber · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm surprised that it took Google this long to integrate stuff like this. Camfrog has a web-based version (needs active X but you can access the actual chat from anywhere) and it's pretty rock solid as it stands. You can literally embed a video /voice/text chat room in your webpage. Though, for the power of this, it DOES cost you about $12,000 for a license and copy. I wonder if Google will think of charging for this 'service'

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  8. Re:Way more than "partial excitement." by stunt_penguin · · Score: -1, Troll

    And yours was one of the most pointless posts I've ever read. Shut up or contribute.

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  9. Re:Excited by garcia · · Score: 0, Troll

    So, no, not really that insightful.

    You're 100% correct, you weren't insightful. People that have emoticons enabled might not fully understand your "old-school" smiley. So you might still have the "dreaded chasm" that you speak of.

    Get over yourself.