How To Chat with readers live with google talk chatback badge HackZ

Author: nspanspa // Category: , , , ,
Like Meebo Me, Google Talk now allows you to chat with people who may not have signed up for Google Talk or a Google Account.

This is possible through a new Google Talk Chat Badge
that bloggers can embed in their web pages to chat live with blog
readers and other site visitors.



It really doesn’t matter whether your readers have a Google Talk account or not - they can talk to you through the web page as long as you are signed into your GTalk account.




When they visit your site, they’ll see a badge like the one on the
right showing your online status (available, busy, offline) and, if
you’re available, they can just click and start chatting. Chatback uses
the web-based Google Talk Gadget so your visitors don’t need to
download anything. It opens in a new window so they can keep chatting
with you even if they browse to other pages.

Of course, chatback isn’t just for blogs. You can use it on any web
page that you can add HTML content to. To get started, visit the chatback start page. (This is also linked from the Google Talk homepage.)
Then just copy the provided HTML snippet to your web site. Visitors
will then see a badge on your site indicating your availability, and
can click to start a chat with you. If there’s a time when you don’t
want to be distracted, just set your online status to “busy” and
visitors won’t be able to chat with you until you change your status
back to “available.”


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