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Saturday, November 04, 2006

Let's Talk on Orkut

It's confirmed! Google is now integrating their GTalk Instant Messenger and VOIP service in Orkut. With Google already having it integrated in their other services like: word processing, spreadsheet applications, and Gmail, this initiative sounds great.

This is what the Google spokeswoman Courtney Hohne says:

"We noticed that a lot of people that were using Orkut also had their GTalk client open at the same time,"
and also says:

"some of the functionality of the Orkut site will be built into the free standing GTalk client. Orkut "friends" (and their "presence" status and information) will show up on GTalk users' buddy lists."
So next time you need to scrap your friend, there is no need to log into Orkut. Instead simply send your message on GTalk and that's it. Go... Chat Live and Talk :)

Well I personally am not a very crazy Orkut user or a strong GTalk user though. Only the reason being that GTalk is not much preferred IM in India compared to Yahoo! messenger and Windows Live. But this will have me be a regular to use GTalk often since Orkut having a huge popularity, GTalk is a must download messenger.
Here it is, now I have my GTalk on! ;)

Catch me on Orkut.




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