February 25th, 2008 | by Bill Kee | published in Google Talk
Do you have a blog, online profile, or some other personal web page? Would you like to communicate more with your visitors? Today we’re launching a new Google Talk feature that lets visitors to your web site chat with you. We call it “chatback” because…
February 7th, 2008 | by Bill Kee | published in Google Talk
It goes without saying that instant messaging has become integral to communicating in the workplace and at school. Chat helps us to share ideas instantaneously with co-workers and classmates. That’s why Google Talk has always been a part of Google App…
December 18th, 2007 | by Bill Kee | published in Google Talk
OK, I cheated. I don’t really speak Chinese. But I know a bot that does, and we’re releasing it today together with number of other translation bots. For those not familiar with bots, a (ro)bot is a piece of software that acts as a chat contact and pro…
December 12th, 2007 | by Bill Kee | published in Google Talk
Finding a good Google Talk picture can be a real chore. It’s hard enough to find a photo of yourself where you’re smiling and looking intelligent, without all the additional hassle of cropping, exporting, and manually uploading your picture. So I devot…
November 26th, 2007 | by Bill Kee | published in Google Talk
Today, we added support for 20 more languages to the web-based Google Talk Gadget. The new languages are: Chinese(Simplified), Chinese(Traditional), Danish, Dutch, English(UK), Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Po…
September 19th, 2007 | by Bill Kee | published in Google Talk
I gave a presentation about the Google Talk Service a while ago at the Google Scalability Conference hosted by Googlers in Seattle. You can watch the video below.Here is the abstract:Since launching Google Talk in the summer of 2005, we have integra…
July 2nd, 2007 | by Bill Kee | published in Google Talk
If you use Google Apps at your business, organization or school, you can now use the Google Talk Gadget on your Start Page to have chats with colleagues or classmates (including group chats). Google Apps lets your organization create Gmail accounts t…
June 25th, 2007 | by Bill Kee | published in Google Talk
We use Google Talk all the time at work to chat with people on our team. It can sometimes be limiting, though, when you want to include multiple people in the conversation, like you can on an email thread or a conference call. That’s why we’re really…
June 8th, 2007 | by Bill Kee | published in Google Talk
We focus a lot in this blog on the features we’re adding to Google Talk and the technology behind them. But I wanted to share a bit about our users and what they’re doing with Google Talk.As a member of the Google Talk support team, my day is usually b…
May 24th, 2007 | by Bill Kee | published in Google Talk
Tired of expressing emotions to your friends with words? Exhausted by the two and sometimes three keys you have to press to enter an emoticon? The Google Talk Gadget has got your back. Today we’re introducing an emoticon menu to put those 
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May 21st, 2007 | by Bill Kee | published in Google Talk
I was excited when the Google Talk Gadget launched in March, since it meant there was one more way to chat with your buddies on the Web — it let you access Google Talk as a gadget on iGoogle or add it to your own Web page. Today we’re please…
April 3rd, 2007 | by Bill Kee | published in Google Talk
As an engineer, one of my favorite aspects of delivering Google Talk through the web is that we can enhance it quickly. In fact, we updated the Google Talk Gadget today with a few new features:(1) To make it easier to use Google Talk anywhere, we made …
March 14th, 2007 | by Bill Kee | published in Google Talk
We’re thrilled to be launching a new way to use Google Talk today. The Google Talk Gadget is a web-based module that you can add to your Google Personalized Homepage, letting you see your friends and chat with them — all on your homepage.We know a lot…
February 28th, 2007 | by Bill Kee | published in Google Talk
What are you doing right now? It’s a pretty simple question. Me? I’m writing this post. Maybe you’re “eating a magnolia cupcake,” or “at work, but shopping online.” Or maybe you’re “thinking of how to use the word of the day in a sentence: polypropolen…
January 17th, 2007 | by Mike Jazayeri | published in Google Talk
Using a headset can drastically improve your experience in making a Google Talk voice call.I’ve often been in situations where I’ve tried to make calls to other Google Talk users using only my notebook PC’s built-in microphones and speakers. While this…