Comments on: Chatback widget from Google: About time http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/02/27/chatback-widget-from-google-about-time/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: max191 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/02/27/chatback-widget-from-google-about-time/comment-page-1/#comment-360741 max191 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:56:19 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/02/27/chatback-widget-from-google-about-time/#comment-360741 Loved to read your blog. I would like to suggest you that traffic show most people read blogs on Mondays. So it should encourage bloggers to write new write ups over the weekend primarily.<br>regards<br><a rel="dofollow" href="http://www.charcoalgrillsite.com" rel="nofollow">charcoal grill</a> Loved to read your blog. I would like to suggest you that traffic show most people read blogs on Mondays. So it should encourage bloggers to write new write ups over the weekend primarily.
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]]> By: mathewi http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/02/27/chatback-widget-from-google-about-time/comment-page-1/#comment-342893 mathewi Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:57:02 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/02/27/chatback-widget-from-google-about-time/#comment-342893 Thanks for the comment, Jake.<br><br>A number of other people have mentioned the giant link that pops up --<br>I haven't had that happen. When someone starts a chat through the<br>widget, it pops up in a regular GTalk chat window in my Gmail. Maybe<br>it's different if you're using the GTalk standalone app.<br><br><br><br>On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Disqus Thanks for the comment, Jake.

A number of other people have mentioned the giant link that pops up –
I haven't had that happen. When someone starts a chat through the
widget, it pops up in a regular GTalk chat window in my Gmail. Maybe
it's different if you're using the GTalk standalone app.

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Disqus

]]> By: Jake http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/02/27/chatback-widget-from-google-about-time/comment-page-1/#comment-342892 Jake Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:26:05 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/02/27/chatback-widget-from-google-about-time/#comment-342892 It's close. I put it on my site, too, although since nobody goes there I haven't had much use for it. But there are a few problems:<br><br>1. Why is it so narrow? My status messages tend to be quite a bit longer. The chat badge's proportions should be customizable (there are numbers in the html it spits out, but I don't think they work to widen or heighten it).<br>2. It doesn't seem to work quite right with my browser--it tells me to install Flash version 8, which of course I have installed already. And anyway, if the google chat window in gmail doesn't necessitate Flash, why should this?<br>3. Like I said, I haven't had a chance to try out a full conversation, but I believe the way it works is that when someone IMs me through the widget I get a gtalk message prompting me to open a url. Why not just channel the visitor's messages into a standard gtalk message window?<br><br>Anyway, you're right that it's an improvement over Meebo--I don't want to keep a browser window open all the time on the off chance that somebody is going to IM me from my blog. But I don't think it's quite there yet.<br><br>Also, while I'm here--Disqus is cool, but I believe it doesn't work with <a href="http://co.mments.com">co.mments.com</a>, which is how I keep track of comments I leave in various places. I guess I should just get over it, though. It's close. I put it on my site, too, although since nobody goes there I haven't had much use for it. But there are a few problems:

1. Why is it so narrow? My status messages tend to be quite a bit longer. The chat badge's proportions should be customizable (there are numbers in the html it spits out, but I don't think they work to widen or heighten it).
2. It doesn't seem to work quite right with my browser–it tells me to install Flash version 8, which of course I have installed already. And anyway, if the google chat window in gmail doesn't necessitate Flash, why should this?
3. Like I said, I haven't had a chance to try out a full conversation, but I believe the way it works is that when someone IMs me through the widget I get a gtalk message prompting me to open a url. Why not just channel the visitor's messages into a standard gtalk message window?

Anyway, you're right that it's an improvement over Meebo–I don't want to keep a browser window open all the time on the off chance that somebody is going to IM me from my blog. But I don't think it's quite there yet.

Also, while I'm here–Disqus is cool, but I believe it doesn't work with co.mments.com, which is how I keep track of comments I leave in various places. I guess I should just get over it, though.

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