That’s right! As of yesterday, iGoogle has integrated the chatting feature into the start page.
Now you don’t have to leave your Gmail up to be able to chat with your friends. You don’t even have to add the Google Talk gadget. Google Talk is now built into the sidebar of your iGoogle page.
There are some differences worth noting. In your iGoogle page, you will not be able to do any of the following. These features will still only be available in Gmail.
- Pop out windows
- Offline messages
- Group chat
- AIM integration
- Video chat
However, there is a perk to chatting in iGoogle. You can talk with all of your friends, even if they don’t have a Gmail address. Simply invite them to chat through the iGoogle interface. Once they sign up for iGoogle with their personal email, you can start chatting away.
Are you excited about chatting in iGoogle?
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Google Talk does not seem to load in the sidebar when using Firefox (version 3.0.6). Any idea why?
March 7th, 2009 at 10:49 am
Nevermind… apparently you have to sign out of your Google home page and then sign back in before it will show up.
March 11th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
I *NEVER* prefer that someone else include mandatory features on my portal. I understand about the advertising, but moving tabs to the side and now Chat. Yuck!
I have an application I use for chat, and I dont want this one. Yes, I did disable it, and it will now bother me to have to look at the useless tab.
Do no evil, my a**!
April 7th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
some times, when i login to igoogle page, it’ll show chat side bar… but sometimes, it won’t at any cost, i’ll refresh, relogin…whatever i do i can’t get it on my i google side bar.