Google Adds Chat To Gmail

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."

chat with people or advertisers?

[Anonymous Coward]

AC: Hey! What you been up to? :-D
GCA: same old same old. workin 9-5 sux teh bawls :-\
AC: tell me about it! i hardly have time to utorrent warez anymore :-P
GCA: Hey, I've got a quick and easy site you can go to for warez [warezhq.com] if you want. 8-)
AC: nah, that's okay, I've got to go make dinner.
GCA: whatcha makin? ;-)
AC: just some chicken and some veggies :-$
GCA: you could spice up that chicken with some worchester sauce [leaperrins.com] :-D
AC: No... I'm good thanks. :-\
AC: What's up with all the links, Allison?
GCA: Allison?
AC: Aren't you Grand Canyon Alli? From the spring break trip?
GCA: ... yeeeeaaaah.. I just wanted to help you make dinner ;)
AC: OMG You're a Google Chat Advertiser!! :-O

Disable Adblock?

[verloren]

You can unblock my ads when you pry it from my cold...no, wait...I'll uninstall Adblock when I pry it from your...no, that's not it...I'll pry Adblock from...

Ain't gonna happen.

Re:Ugh - Already blocked on my machine

[Snap E Tom]

You must live in China!

BCC

[jaaronc]

Actually, this was technology that google had to incorporate in order to get Google Talk into China...all chat logs are BCC'd to the chinese government...

Re:Way more than "partial excitement."

[LittleLebowskiUrbanA]

That was one of the most rambling posts I've ever tried to read. Pimping a blog or something? Get to the point already.

Re:What the world needs now...

[digitaldc]

"Yeah, like I need a whole in my head."

That is a wholly flawed argument.

Re:I forsee no more gmail access from work...

[szembek]

If protection of productivity was their motive, I think they'd block /.

Re:Am I the only one?

[SirTalon42]

Thats why you don't give them the key, nothing better than removing the human element from security!

It's all about the Lloyd Dobler attitude....

[Alpha_Traveller]

I don't want to gtalk-advertise anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to gtalk-advertise anything bought or processed, or buy anything gtalk-advertized or processed, or process anything gtalk-advertized, bought, or processed, or repair anything gtalk-advertized, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.

Probably been said, but...

[RomulusNR]

Google recommends you disable Firefox's AdBlock,

Oh, well fuck that then.

Re:IM Banned

[tftp]

Where I work we have an internal Jabber server and Psi/Exodus/Kopete clients. When people want to ask a simple question they don't walk to the other person; even if the question is not simple and requires a meeting it's still easier to find out if the other guy is here and free to talk, and not on lunch or already in another meeting... saves time and stops this wasteful walking, which can lead to exercise :-)