Folks at Google announced this cool instant messenging tool for website call the Google Talk chatback. Think of it as a tool to help you communicate better with your website visitors or blog readers. You place a badge or so in your website, and when visitors clicked on them, you will be notified and chat begins.
Your visitors don’t need a Google talk account to use this, but you do. To get started, click on the chatback start page, copy the provided HTML and paste anywhere suitable on your website. Visitors are also able to see your status, whenever you change them on GTalk, it’ll be reflected as well. Sounds simple, isnt it? I’ve be placing this on hongkiat.com for a while, you can chat with me if you want, provided that I’m online :-)
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Posted by hongkiat in Google, Web Tricks , at 03.03.08 |
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syamsulariff.com March 3rd, 2008
yeah, another great tool by google..now my reader got another alternative to contact me :D
Replyviettut March 5th, 2008
Can use for Google Apps?!?
ReplyBen March 9th, 2008
If you want to use another Jabber client, i.e. something that is not GTalk (i.e. Adium, IChat, etc), you might want to check out http://www.hab.la it’s similar in functionality, but a bit more flexible.
-Ben
ReplypeeInMyPantz March 23rd, 2008
Hi,
I’ve never done a widget for wordpress before. But thought my site will need a widget for googletalk chatback, and I can’t find any… so i made one.
if you guys are interested, here’s the plugin
http://databinge.com/files/gtalk.zip
I don’t plan to support this if this doesn’t work.. because I am not familiar with wordpress widget .. I’m sure someone will make a great one soon.. but for those that can’t wait..
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