Google has offered new gmail chat features to selected gmail users. The facility is ‘rolling out to all Gmail accounts within the next few weeks’.


Google has offered new gmail chat features to selected gmail users. The facility is ‘rolling out to all Gmail accounts within the next few weeks’.

Google has announced it as: “It’s good to chat.

Check out the latest buzz: our new Gmail chat features. It’s rolling out to all Gmail accounts within the next few weeks”.

The new features include:

Chat History: Saving chat and searching for specific messages.

Quick Contacts: Customizing the gmail contacts so as to email and IM the people with one click.

Other features include:

“But wait, there’s more…

Add contacts and invite your friends to chat from Quick Contacts
See when your friends are online
Set your status to busy, sleepy, angry or whatever. Even sneezy.
Get Google Talk to make free voice calls too. It’s completely synchronized with Quick Contacts
Go off the record when you’re chatting so nothing gets saved to anyone’s Gmail account” [source]

 

 

 

 

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