Today we launched Google Desktop 3.0 with even more integration with Google Talk. In the last release you could dock Google Talk in the Sidebar. Now you can share items from your Sidebar with friends. Try it out by dragging and dropping any item from your Sidebar onto your Google Talk friends list. The item will show up in their Sidebar or will be sent as an IM if they don't have Google Desktop installed. This functionality is also exposed to panels via our Sidebar API, you can even write one using Javascript. As a sample, we're happy to announce the first multiplayer Sidebar game: Tic Tac Toe. We look forward to seeing some of the cool Sidebar panels that developers will write (chess anyone?).
John Abd-El-Malek
Software Engineer
Share your Sidebar
Thursday, February 09, 2006 7:13 PM
Libjingle 0.2.0
Wednesday, February 08, 2006 12:10 PM
I've released libjingle 0.2.0 to the Sourceforge.net project page. Notable changes in 0.2.0 include build support for Windows using Visual Studio Express, TLS support (this encrypts the communication between applications using libjingle and the server), and a new "tunnel" session type. The tunnel session uses what we call "pseudo-tcp" to reliably transfer a TCP-like stream of data over Jingle's peer-to-peer connections. The Libjingle documentation has also been updated to describe how to use this new session type.
Sean Egan
Software Engineer
Save a chat, and more...
Monday, February 06, 2006 5:32 PM
We have some exciting changes in store for Gmail and Google Talk this week. If you haven't seen the latest changes you Gmail, you can read about them on Jon's post to the Google Blog. The features will be appearing in Gmail accounts starting today.
With these changes you can chat directly from the Gmail interface. Just click on the chat button next to your friend's name and you'll be IMing just like in Google Talk. No need to switch away from Gmail, it just happens right in the same place. Give it a shot!
Another change for both Google Talk and Gmail is the ability to save chat histories. Google Talk users have been asking for a feature that lets them save chat histories, and now we have it.
But, just saving wouldn't be good enough. Chat histories are a lot more useful if you can search them and organize them—things that make chat more efficient and powerful, and more like email. So starting today, check out the new "Chats" link on the left-hand side of the Gmail screen—you'll see your chats there (if you choose to save chat histories of course - it's your choice). They will appear almost instantly, and they're displayed in a way that makes it really easy to read through your chat conversation. And, when you do a search in Gmail, it searches over your saved chats as well. Remember an important address from a conversation you had last week? No? Just search for it!
We hope you find both these changes useful.
Bob Day
Software Engineer
