sarahintampa

If you haven’t checked out Gtalkr lately, it’s time to return! Gtalkr is a way to log into your GoogleTalk account online (via their website), instead of using the GoogleTalk program. When you use Gtalkr to chat with your buddies, your IM conversations are saved and are then searchable…so it’s like you can Google your IMs! But Gtalkr is so much more than just instant messaging. You can also add content, like RSS feeds, to your Gtalkr page. Several popular feeds are already available to add with a click of a button, or you can add your own. Other Gtalkr extensions let you add things like Gmail, Yahoo Maps, and a To Do List ("Make a List").

New features just added are a video search using a You Tube extension and a flickr slideshow extension that lets you either search flickr for photos or view a slide show of someone’s photos by entering in their username. Even cooler, the flickr logo appears next to your contact’s username in your contact list if they are also on flickr. All you have to do is click the logo, and their slideshow appears. Not only that, but even if you’ve just invited people to join Gmail or if they exist in your Gmail contacts, you will still see the flickr icon, so this feature is not limited to people using GoogleTalk. This is a great example of where Google builds the back end, and talented developers build a front-end that maximizes the usefulness of the API.

Sometimes, technology really seems like magic.

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