{"id":32752,"date":"2013-03-18T14:01:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T20:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/18\/chat-talk-babble.html"},"modified":"2013-03-18T14:01:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T20:01:50","slug":"chat-talk-babble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/18\/chat-talk-babble.html","title":{"rendered":"Chat, Talk, Babble"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Man, I&#39;ll be happy if there&#39;s a way to just have a single chat window open, rather than a message coming in triggering subwindows in Gmail and G+ (as well as the old native Talk client, which I <i>still<\/i> prefer, since all it does is let me &#8230; talk, and it doesn&#39;t require a separate instance of the browser to run in).<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I think this is a good idea. I do think the reworking and barriers around it make Google an incrementally more insular place to work in, which is not what I want to see, but it&#39;s certainly true that the general direction of an integrated, cross-product chat client\/tech for Google is overdue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/104995089749643407284'>Doug Dunfee<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images3-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/babble_geekdotcom.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/www.geek.com\/articles\/mobile\/google-expected-to-unify-chat-under-the-name-babble-20130318\/'>Google expected to unify chat under the name Babble | Geek Pick | Geek.com<\/a><br \/>\n                                                Mar. 18, 2013 &#8211; Google&#8217;s quest to continue unifying their products is about to enter its next phase. According to multiple sources, the company&#8217;s next step includes\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/RAjYdf7uNb8' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, I&#39;ll be happy if there&#39;s a way to just have a single chat window open, rather than a message coming in triggering subwindows in Gmail and G+ (as well as the old native Talk client, which I still prefer, since all it does is let me &#8230; talk, and it doesn&#39;t require a separate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/18\/chat-talk-babble.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chat, Talk, Babble&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13438,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/12\/sms_chat_from_gmail.html","url_meta":{"origin":32752,"position":0},"title":"SMS Chat from Gmail","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 12-Dec-08 11:02am","format":false,"excerpt":"I'd rather that Google were spending a bit more time adding some recent features into the Google Talk client, but clearly Google is more focused on chat-like things out of...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;My Computer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"My Computer","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/my-computer"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12508,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/07\/new_google_talk_kinda.html","url_meta":{"origin":32752,"position":1},"title":"New Google Talk &#8230; kinda","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 7-Apr-08 9:32am","format":false,"excerpt":"Google has issued a new \"Labs Edition\" of Google Talk. 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