Gmail Browser Chat

[nemorathwald]

Good gravy, I am swarmed with chat messages from my friends who have simultaneously discovered that Gmail is porting Google Talk directly into their Gmail browser window. I knew about it first, but no matter how often I refresh my browser, the feature hasn't propagated to my account yet. In the middle of a huge Gmail chatfest, I'm still using the desktop client.

The nice thing is, though, that they will finally get on Google Talk! I love Google Talk. One of the unfortunate things about other instant message clients is that I don't have the same archived messages on one computer that I do at another. Google Talk is now archived and searchable from within Gmail.

Comments

[temujin9.livejournal.com]

Google does regional rollouts of features, to keep the number of error reports managable. You just happened to be at the end of the list, I think.

[matt-arnold.livejournal.com]

Everyone who messaged me lived in the same state as me.

[temujin9.livejournal.com]

Doesn't mean they were necessarily in the same region, though it's more likely. I have no idea how they decide regions; if it's by IP address, then physical locale won't matter.

[ericthemage.livejournal.com]

Google Talk is now archived and searchable from within Gmail.

*tinfoil helmet mode*

Now all of your chats are archived with Big Brother. :)

[ericthemage.livejournal.com]

Oh, and today I also saw chat in my gmail. Yours must be coming soon.

[wolfger.livejournal.com]

If it's any consolation, I'm not seeing chat in Gmail either...