What's New on Google Talk?
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| Group Chat You can now invite multiple people to chat with you in a group using the Google Talk Gadget. When you're chatting with a friend, just click on the "Group Chat" button to invite one or more friends to join the conversation. |  | |||||||||
| New Emoticons :-) They have added a nifty emoticon picker to the Google Talk Gadget. Just click on the smiley in the lower right corner of your chat tab to check them out and pick your favorite look. |  | |||||||||
Popout support and Flickr slideshows
We can now do more with the Google Talk Gadget. In addition to putting the gadget on your Google Personalized Homepage, we can now pop out the gadget into a separate, small window anytime. This way we can navigate to other websites and still keep our contact list and chats open. And just like running the gadget on our homepage, this way of using Google Talk is completely web-based, and requires no download. To pop the gadget out, just click on this button:
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Google Talk Gadget we can now add Google Talk to our Google Personalized Homepage. The Google Talk Gadget lets you see your contacts and chat with friends right on your homepage, and it doesn't require a download. You can even add the Google Talk Gadget to your own webpage or blog by pasting a single line of code into your site. There are a couple of new features to try out in the Google Talk Gadget. If you paste a URL from YouTube or Picasa Web Albums into your chat, the Google Talk Gadget will let you preview the videos and photos right in your conversation.
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| Windows Vista Support One can now use Google Talk with Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system. | ||||||||||
| Orkut integration Google Talk makes it easier than ever to chat with more of your friends. If you use orkut, Google's free social networking service, you can chat or place Internet phone calls with your orkut friends using Google Talk. orkut friends will automatically appear in your Friends list, and you'll find out instantly if you've received a new orkut scrap. |  | |||||||||
| Offline Messages Now if your friends have chat history enabled, you can send them messages even when they're not online. Just enter a message into the chat window as you would normally, and they'll get it the next time they sign into Google Talk. In Gmail, offline messages can be searched and organized -- just like instant messages in their chat history. | ||||||||||
| File Transfer With this top requested new feature, you can send unlimited files and folders to your friends through Google Talk. There is no restriction on the file type or size and the peer-to-peer transfer is fast and reliable. |  |
| Voicemail If your friends aren't around to answer your call, you can leave them a voicemail message instead. Just record your voice after the "Meep" and your friends will get an email to their Talk contact address with the voicemail attached as an audio file. They can play your message when they check their email and save it for as long as they want. |
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| Music Status and Music Trends
Listening to music while chatting on Google Talk? Now you can let your friends see what you're listening to by selecting "Show current music track" in your status menu. Your status message will change when your song does!
You can also choose to contribute your music tastes to Google Music Trends, and check out what Google Talk users are listening to across the world.
So they have added a lot of new features in google talk.But they are web based .One can now not only chat but also can do conference,watch youtube videos,voicemail,etc on it.
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