Gtalk goes online
December 5th, 2005This is old news if you read Om Malik’s GigaOm blog, but I thought I’d relay this piece of information to my own clique as well, just in case. If you are a Mac user or are using a machine without Google Talk, head to Gtalkr.com - an online service that allows you to ‘Go anywhere, to any computer, and have access to your Google Talk account via Gtalkr’. Yes, it is totally Flash-based. No, it is not owned by Google (yet?). Yes, it does have the sweet sweet UI that resembles something that would come out of Google Labs. Except that Google would go the Javascript way.
The add-ons that Gtalkr allows are simply amazing, and amazingly simple - like creating a list or adding buddy logon notification (through a separate Gtalkr notifier). Gtalkr also allows you to star a Gtalk conversation and lets you have your own gtalk inbox (note that this resides on a non-google server). The simplicity and design just might make you choose Gtalkr over Google Talk itself!
