Tag - Google-Talk
Messenger bots have become popular over the past couple of years, and are a growing trend for most Messenger clients. Amit Agarwal over at Digital Inspiration knows a few things about them, and has created a tutorial on how to create your own Messenger bot:
>> View the tutorial over at the Digital Inspiration blog
This quick tutorial will show you how to develop your own functional IM bot that works with Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live and all other popular instant messaging clients.
To get started, all you need to know are some very basic programming skills (any language would do) and web space to host your 'bot'.
For this example, I have created a dummy bot called 'labnol' that listens to your IM messages and return related search phrases based on Google Suggest. To see this live, add labnol@bot.im to your GTalk buddy list and start chatting.
To get started, all you need to know are some very basic programming skills (any language would do) and web space to host your 'bot'.
For this example, I have created a dummy bot called 'labnol' that listens to your IM messages and return related search phrases based on Google Suggest. To see this live, add labnol@bot.im to your GTalk buddy list and start chatting.
>> View the tutorial over at the Digital Inspiration blog
The iPhone's large high resolution touch screen interface has made it very popular for web applications to take advantage of. Google have continued this trend by today releasing Google Talk for the iPhone and iPod Touch:
The success of the iPhone has meant many popular web services now have specific pages and functions designed for it, including the most popular web messengers.
>> Source: The Google Talk development blog
>> View Google Talk for the iPhone
Attention iPhone owners! You can now chat with all your Google Talk buddies while on the go. Our new version of Google Talk is designed specifically for the iPhone and runs in the iPhone's browser, so you don't need to download or install anything. Just visit www.google.com/talk on your iPhone, sign in, and start chatting. And because it is built for the browser, it will work on today's iPhones as well as on tomorrow's 3G iPhones.
The success of the iPhone has meant many popular web services now have specific pages and functions designed for it, including the most popular web messengers.
>> Source: The Google Talk development blog
>> View Google Talk for the iPhone
We already knew it was under development, but today Google have finally release integration with AIM. Now you can use Gmail to chat to your AIM buddies:
Google look committed to expanding this onto several IM networks and who knows, one day Google Talk could be used to talk to friends using several IM clients. The only thing stopping this from ever happening is from a business perspective. I just can't see Microsoft handing over its users potentially to use Google Talk.
>> Source: Official Gmail blog
From the beginning, Google has been committed to open standards and interoperation for instant messaging. So when our friends at AOL agreed to let Gmail users talk to users on their network, we jumped at the chance.
Today we are happy to tell you about a new feature we've started to roll out which will enable you to sign into your AIM account and chat with your AIM buddies right inside Gmail. When you log in to AIM through Gmail chat, your AOL buddies will appear in your chat list with friends from your Google Talk network, and you will see the yellow 'running man' logo to the right of your AIM friends' screen names. To your AIM friends it will look like you are logged in to AIM as usual.
Today we are happy to tell you about a new feature we've started to roll out which will enable you to sign into your AIM account and chat with your AIM buddies right inside Gmail. When you log in to AIM through Gmail chat, your AOL buddies will appear in your chat list with friends from your Google Talk network, and you will see the yellow 'running man' logo to the right of your AIM friends' screen names. To your AIM friends it will look like you are logged in to AIM as usual.
Google look committed to expanding this onto several IM networks and who knows, one day Google Talk could be used to talk to friends using several IM clients. The only thing stopping this from ever happening is from a business perspective. I just can't see Microsoft handing over its users potentially to use Google Talk.
>> Source: Official Gmail blog
Integration is similar to that of web messengers in the way you can sign into one IM network at a time, but sign in through the same client. Google already supports other IM clients as pointed out by Adam Dempsey.
Google Talk working with several clients is key to get more users. Most IM networks are old and have already built up their user base. Google still need to attract users and it is doubtful it can fulfill the IM market without allowing users to use the IM client of their choice.
If this gets rolled out to regular users, there will soon be two major IM camps: Yahoo-Microsoft and Google-AOL. It's funny how a $1 billion investment gets things moving along.
>> Source: Google Operating System Blog