Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat » chatback Archives – Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat http://blog.fosketts.net Understanding the accumulation of data Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:40:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Google Chatback Rocks and Rolls http://blog.fosketts.net/2008/03/07/google-chatback-rocks-and-rolls/ http://blog.fosketts.net/2008/03/07/google-chatback-rocks-and-rolls/#comments Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:15:05 +0000 Stephen http://blog.fosketts.net/2008/03/07/google-chatback-rocks-and-rolls/ Google added a nifty feature to their arsenal of sorta-world-taking-over products the other day (while I was away) – chatback. This lets us webby-writing people add a special chat balloon to our pages which lets random strangers google-talk with us.  So I added it to my sites and actually had a productive use for it today!  But not all is bunnies and flowers…

Here’s what the balloon looks like:

Cool, eh?  Except…

I like it ok.  I’ll leave it on (after all, I did make a MediaWiki extension and WordPress plugin/widget for it) but I’m not sure it’ll be much more than an occasional distraction.  And I hope Frederic isn’t right about the potential for multitudes of unwanted conversations!

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