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IGoogle Announces New Chat Application
By Manoj Jasra
Expert Author
Article Date: 2009-03-03
iGoogle continues to get better and better, now you can add a widget featuring the same chat feature that you have grown to love in Gmail. A very cool part of the chat widget within iGoogle is that you can invite non Gmail users to come and talk with you.
All you have to do is invite them as a chat buddy, and if they accept your invitation and sign up for iGoogle with their personal email account, their name becomes just a click away right on your page. Don't want to be bothered while you're checking out the latest news or reading your emails? You have a couple of options to hid the chat feature. You can either click the chat "options" link and selecting "hide chat," or sign off completely by selecting "sign out of chat."
Differences between chatting in iGoogle and Gmail
iGoogle's chat feature is integrated into the Google Talk network, so messages you send using Gmail chat, and changes you make to your contacts and status, are fully synchronized. However, the following chat features are available only in Gmail's chat feature:
- Pop out windows
- Offline messages
- Group chat
- AIM integration
- Video chat
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About the Author:
Manoj Jasra is a well respected search marketing veteran having been in the industry since 2002. Manoj currently serves as a Sr. Analyst on the web solutions team at Shaw Communications Inc. Manoj's role primarily consists of providing SEO/PPC and Web Analytics strategies in addition to business insight on Shaw's web properties. Previously, Manoj held the role of Director of Technology at Enquiro Search Solutions where he oversaw Enquiro's product development for search marketing solutions and acted as the lead on both SEO Training and Enquiro's Web Analytics approach.
Check out Manoj's well read blog, Web Analytics World, which focuses on his insight in Search Marketing, Mobile, Technology and of course, Web Analytics. You can contact Manoj at manoj.jasra@gmail.com
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