May 28th, 2009 | by Brian Hutchins | published in Google Talk
I spent my youth writing games on a computer hooked up to my parents’ television but despite saving my pennies to buy a 300-baud modem, I was never able to realize my dream of writing a game that my best friend and I could play against each other on tw…
May 28th, 2009 | by Brian Hutchins | published in Google Talk, Uncategorized
I spent my youth writing games on a computer hooked up to my parents’ television but despite saving my pennies to buy a 300-baud modem, I was never able to realize my dream of writing a game that my best friend and I could play against each other on tw…
May 4th, 2009 | by Brian Hutchins | published in Google Talk
Google Latitude is a service that allows you to see where your friends are on a map in real time. You can choose whether to share your location with any or all of your friends and can display what you are up to with a status messages. And now there i…
May 4th, 2009 | by Brian Hutchins | published in Google Talk, Uncategorized
Google Latitude is a service that allows you to see where your friends are on a map in real time. You can choose whether to share your location with any or all of your friends and can display what you are up to with a status messages. And now there i…
April 20th, 2009 | by Brian Hutchins | published in Google Talk
Hi Orkut users! For those of you who didn’t have Gmail enabled for your account or use a gmail.com user name, you may have found it odd that Google Talk was not available in Orkut for you. Well, now we are enabling chat for all Orkut accounts, without …
March 17th, 2009 | by Brian Hutchins | published in Google Talk
You can now chat right from iGoogle, Google’s personalizable homepage, while checking news, watching videos, or playing games. iGoogle chat works from your browser, like Gmail chat, and you can exchange instant messages with any of your contacts that…
November 11th, 2008 | by Brian Hutchins | published in Google Apps, Google Talk
We are happy to announce the release of voice and video chat in Gmail. Now you can chat in high quality audio and video with your Google Talk contacts from Gmail. Check out the details on the Gmail blog and the Official Google blog.Serge LachapelleProd…
September 25th, 2008 | by Brian Hutchins | published in Google Apps, Google Talk
Got a burning question about how to best use Google Talk? Today we launched a new Forum within Google Help that allows you to ask questions about Google Talk and have them answered by both Google employees and other Google Talk fans. We believe this ne…
August 12th, 2008 | by Brian Hutchins | published in Google Apps, Google Talk
Have you ever wished that you could chat with your family and friends in your native language? Sometimes there’s just no substitute for expressing a thought in your own language. Google Talk now has transliteration bots that will convert text from Eng…
July 2nd, 2008 | by Brian Hutchins | published in Google Talk
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. …
June 20th, 2008 | by Brian Hutchins | published in Google Talk
The philosophy for the Google Talk team is to enable real time communication where and how people need it, across different platforms, devices, and operating systems. Towards these goals, we have made Google Talk available through web interfaces like …
June 4th, 2008 | by Brian Hutchins | published in Google Talk
Back in December, we released translation bots for Google Talk. While machine translation isn’t 100% accurate, the idea of reducing language barriers with automated chat translations appealed to many people, and we received a lot of positive feedback. …
May 6th, 2008 | by Bruce Leban | published in Google Talk
New chatback badge style examples One line basic: Two line basic: Hyperlink and status icon: Chat with Itala We recently added the ability to create Google Talk chatback badges in several new styles. These options are available by cl…
April 7th, 2008 | by Brian Hutchins | published in Google Talk
For me, life moves pretty fast, and with so much stuff going on it’s easy to have things fall through the cracks. The other day I missed an important meeting because I forgot to open up Google Calendar after restarting my browser (don’t tell my manager…
April 1st, 2008 | by Brian Hutchins | published in Google Talk
Here at Google, we’re committed to helping build a clean energy future and reducing our carbon footprint. And now Google Talk is part of the solution. We don’t know about you, but we were surprised to learn the inconvenient truth that every character (…