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...]
Digsby
Digsby is a multi-protocol instant messaging program that adds social networking and email notification integration. Digsby's IM support is extensive. Digsby connects to AIM, WLM (MSN), Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber and Facebook Chat. Social network support includes Facebook, Myspace, Twitter … [Read more...]