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Gmail, Google Calendar, Docs And Talk Leave Beta
1:30AM Adam Pash | Google today will finally remove the long-standing beta tag from some of its most popular web applications, most notably its wildly popular email application, Gmail. More »
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Synapse Brings Elegant Jabber/Google Talk To Linux
8:00AM Kevin Purdy | Linux only: It will only ever truly support Jabber/XMPP/Google Talk, but Synapse, a new alpha-level IM app, is a pretty—and pretty efficient—way to chat if you’re all about open-source communication. The developer of Synapse has a goal of spreading the love for XMPP, which is an open, extensible chat standard. That’s great for the open-minded set, and users of Google Talk, which conforms to the standard, but is obviously a bit restricting, given the number of contacts one might have on “legacy” systems like AIM or MSN. There might be room in the future for server-side conversion of other protocols to XMPP, but for the time being, it’s open-source or the road. That said, even in a theoretically buggy alpha, Synapse looks great. More »
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Google Launches Voice And Video Chat Inside Gmail
5:52AM Gina Trapani | Today Google starts rolling out voice and video chat inside Gmail—which requires a free browser plug-in download, and, obviously, a webcam. Googler Justin Uberti explains: More »
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Google Talk Launches for iPhone; Works Great in Sidebar
10:00PM Kevin Purdy | Google just launched an iPhone-friendly interface for its web-based Google Talk client—point your mobile Safari to google.com/talk to see it in action. Firefox users, this also means, as the Digital Inspiration blog points out, you’ve got a friendly little GChat client you can keep loaded in your sidebar (create a bookmark, check “Load in sidebar”), but any browser can access the interface through talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/m. More »
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Google Talk Goes Invisible
5:30AM Adam Pash | If you rock Google Talk in your Firefox sidebar, you’ll be happy to know that it’s finally integrated the Invisible status a good three months after Gmail’s chat. Still no update on the desktop client, though there are still ways to manipulate your idle status. More »Update Twitter via IM using Google Talk
11:18AM Sarah Stokely | If you use Twitter in Australia, you know that you need to SMS a UK-based number to update (or tweet). That could work out to be expensive! I’m going to go through a few options which might work out cheaper for you. Today let’s look at using Google Talk.To update Twitter via IM from your Gtalk account, you’ll need to add Twitter as a contact.
Here’s how – just add twitter@twitter.com as your contact in GTalk and then go to the Twitter home page to add IM as a method of updating. On the left hand side of the page you’ll see a link to “add device” – hit that, then put in your IM account details. It will give you a password to send to twitter via IM to confirm. You can also send an IM saying “Help” if you want further information.
Now whenever you IM this new friend called Twitter, the message will automatically publish on your Twitter account. It seems to appear pretty quickly too. More » 
Get Google-Related Desktop Notifiers with Google Talk Labs Edition
12:00AM Kevin Purdy | Windows only: For some time now, Google Talk has been more appealing as a web app than in its rarely updated desktop version. That changes, somewhat, with the release of Google Talk Labs Edition for Windows. The desktop client, which looks a lot like its web counterpart, includes the same group chat, emoticons and tabbed talking as the web, and puts pop-up notifications for Google Calendar, Gmail and Orkut events in the corner of your screen—which is a nice, consolidated way of getting that Outlook-like functionality. The big trade-off, however, is the lack of voice calling or file transfer through the Labs Edition, so if those are regular features, you’ll likely want to stick with whatever version you’re using now. Google Talk Labs Edition is a free download for Windows systems only. More »
IM App Digsby Available to All, Adds More Features
7:00AM Adam Pash | Windows only: Freeware instant messaging application Digsby, which boasts integration not only across chat networks but also with your email and social networking web sites, has come out of private beta and added a few more spicy features. Among them, Digsby has added Twitter support, inline spell checking, and audio/video chat with TokBox, the same service Meebo is using to add A/V chat to their service. Aside from the perks that come with most cross-service chat apps (i.e., seamless connections to different IM services from one place), Digsby goes the extra mile by updating real-time newsfeeds from Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. The app is still freeware, Windows only, though they’re still promising Mac and Linux versions. More »
Add Chat to Your Webspace with Google Talk Chatback
6:00AM Adam Pash | Google Talk has released a new chatback feature allowing people visiting your blog, online profile, or personal web page to chat directly with you via Google Talk. To use chatback on your web site or supported personal profile page, all you need is a Google Talk account and some web space where you can embed the chatback badge code. Any user who wants to chat with you through the chatback badge doesn’t need a Google Talk account at all, so it’s a great way to let friends, family, or readers of your blog, for example, contact you quickly and easily without needing to register for anything. Google Talk chatback [via Official Google Talk Blog] More »
GMail Chat adds “invisible” mode
10:47AM Sarah Stokely | Gmail Chat has finally added the ability to mask your presence – the one feature which to my IM-phobic mind makes instant messaging bearable. The Google Operating System has written up the new feature, which allows you to set your status to “Invisible”. This has obvious productivity benefits – you can check and see if your contacts are online, but won’t be bothered by anyone trying to contact you.Note, however, that if you use other flavours of Google Talk (ie the gadget or desktop app) you won’t be able to change your status to invisible because they don’t support the new feature yet – it’s been applied to Gmail Chat first. It’s also only available for the new version of GMail (supported in IE7 and Firefox 2).
Earlier today we showed you how to set your Google Talk status to “idle”, but if you don’t to be pinged with “Are you there?” enquiries, the “Invisible” setting may be the way to go.
Invisible Mode in Gmail Chat [Google Operating System]
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