Chat bots can be fun or useful, but until now, deploying and maintaining a chat bot for Google Talk was difficult. Google has announced a new XMPP API that makes it easier to build your own chat bots with the Google App Engine. The XMPP support lets you create apps that exchange messages with … [Read more...]
Share Your Location via GTalk
The growing popularity of mobile phones with GPS and other location technology led to the recent launch of Google Latitude -- a cool tool that lets you choose to share your geographic location with your contacts. Now Google has announced a couple tools that let you share that information -- with … [Read more...]
Google Talk
Google Talk is a service offered by Google for Voice over IP and instant messaging. Google Talk beta was released on August 24, 2005 and consists of both a service and a client used to connect to the service. Unlike some other instant messaging services, Google Talk uses an open protocol (Jabber) … [Read more...]