Google Talk Feature Suggest

By Nathan Weinberg
Expert Author
Article Date: 2006-04-26

The fine folks behind Google Talk, interested in making sure the devs know what the users want them to do, have put up a page where you can suggest future changes to Google's IM client.

Options are:

Personalization
- Rich text for outgoing chats
- Additional smilies or emoticons
- User profiles
- Friend groups

Communication
- Multi-user chats
- Conference calls
- Voicemail
- Video conferencing
- File sharing or transferring

Additional functionalities
- Offline message delivery
- Mac or Linux versions
- Call and message encryption
- Calls to landlines
- Notification when friends come online

You can select up to five features. I chose, in order of their importance to me:

File sharing or tranferring

Multi-user chats

Calls to landlines

Voicemail

Friends groups

There's also a box for entering your suggestions. Mine was for tabbed IMs.

The suggestion page looked forever, and I thought, "Didn't Gmail used to have one of these?" That was confirmed when I saw that the page title referred to Gmail, not Google Talk, since they must have forgotten to change it when they copied the page. Gtalk team: Fix your title tag. Everyone else: Fill out your latest Gmail suggestions.

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Nathan Weinberg writes the popular InsideGoogle blog, offering the latest news and insights about Google and search engines.

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