http://mathewingram.disqus.com/enWed, 21 May 2008 12:01:40 -0000http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/12/29/gmails-new-chat-social-or-spam/#comment-501992&lt;object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="never" allowNetworking="internal" height="530" width="500" align="middle" data="http://www.gotachat.com/gotaChat.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.gotachat.com/gotaChat.swf" /&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="high" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="&#035;ffffff" /&gt;&lt;param name="play" value="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;Billy RogersWed, 21 May 2008 12:01:40 -0000http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/12/29/gmails-new-chat-social-or-spam/#comment-51803A great round-up of all the speculation and rumours, Mathew.<br><br>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.HeavyLightSun, 30 Dec 2007 19:10:20 -0000http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/12/29/gmails-new-chat-social-or-spam/#comment-51299You can sign out of the chat quite easily, but I agree that an "appear<br>offline" setting of some kind might be handy.mathewiSun, 30 Dec 2007 02:18:02 -0000http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/12/29/gmails-new-chat-social-or-spam/#comment-51294The 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.BoholSun, 30 Dec 2007 02:14:05 -0000