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Gmail’s new chat: Social or spam?

Started by mathewi · 9 months ago

Ionut Alex Chitu at Google Operating System has been spending some time poking around in the entrails of the Javascript code behind Gmail, and has found what he believes are signs of forthcoming chat-related features, including what appear to be updates from your friends and contacts via the cha ... Continue reading »

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  • Bohol

    9 months ago

    The chat window in Gmail should have an option in which a user can disable it. At times you don't want to be known by your friends that you're online. It would be very unproductive when your chat box suddenly pops up because a friends wants to chat with you and you can't turn him or her down.
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  • mathewi

    9 months ago

    You can sign out of the chat quite easily, but I agree that an "appear
    offline" setting of some kind might be handy.
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  • HeavyLight

    9 months ago

    A great round-up of all the speculation and rumours, Mathew.

    I'm hoping that these are signs of a larger Presence-aware contact and messaging system ("Jaiku, meet GTalk"!) that'll feed through to a desperately-needed integrated mobile suite for non-iPhones. Probably Android, too.
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  • Billy Rogers

    4 months ago

    <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="never" allowNetworking="internal" height="530" width="500" align="middle" data="http://www.gotachat.com/gotaChat.swf"><param name="movie" value="http://www.gotachat.com/gotaChat.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /><param name="play" value="true" /></object>
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