For about a week, Google had that annoyling little ‘contact’ box that would appear when hovering over an email or contact address. They finally decided to remove the box because people were unhappy with it — and I’m very thankful they did.
side note: I’m enjoying having RSS feeds in the header, anyone else like them? :)
Seems michael agrees.
Gmail recently added the feature to be able to store ‘chat’ logs within your gmail account. Along side of this addition, Gmail also gives you the ability to actually chat while in the Gmail interface. It’s quite a cool feature in case you want to chat with a buddy on GTalk and you don’t have GTalk installed on your computer. I used it a couple days ago and I really liked it, it’s a fun feature.
As of yesterday, Google Talk has been integrated into Google Mail (GMail) so that you can access any chat logs from conversations held using Google Talk. You need to go into the settings of your GMail account in order to activate these options, but these options are now available for anyone to use. This provides easy access for anyone that wants to keep their chat logs global. I for one, keep all my GAIM logs and it would be nice to be able to keep them global. I will consider moving over to GTalk once AIM protocol is enabled and ready for use. Another big kicker for me is that GTalk will need to have the ‘alias’ feature available like GAIM has. Oh wait, it already does! Splendid. GTalk will be the best ‘chatting’ client out there, in my opinion. With global chat logs in your inbox and the flexibility it provides, GTalk has a great future.
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