Google's chatback badge!

If you have a blog, online profile or some personal web page, would you like to communicate more with your visitors?

Google have launched a new Google talk feature that lets visitors of your web site chat with you! It is called as 'chatback' because instead of you doing all the talking on your blog or web page, your visitors can talk back to you. They could leave comments, but those are public, and hard to use for real conversation. With chatback, its a real time instant message session.

For example, you can ask authors of blog posts here about your doubts or can provide with your quick questions or suggestions!!

To use chatback, you must have a Google talk account.. but your visitors don't need that. Isn't that amazing? They even don't need to have an email address, nor to have ever used instant messaging.

When the visitors visit your site, they will see a badge similar to the one below, showing your online status (available, busy, idle, offline). And, if you are available, they can just click and start chatting.


try this out!

Technically speaking, chatback uses web-based google talk gadget so your visitors don't need to download anything. It opens in a new window so that they can keep on chatting even if they navigate to other pages.

The chatback is not just for the blogs. you can use it on any web page where you are allowed to add HTML code. To get started, visit the chatback start page. Just copy the provided HTML snippet and add it to your web page. Visitors will then see a badge on your site indicating your availability and can click to start chatting with you. If some point in time you don't want to get 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'.

Google phone coming in October

T-Mobile is about to launch the first phone based on Google's Android design. It hopes the new device will compete with Apple's iPhone.

This smartphone will be manufactured by High Tech Computer, a Taiwan-based company. It will have a large touch screen that slides out to reveal a five-row QWERTY keyboard. The device, which will be called the G1, will sell for $150 to T-Mobile customers in the first week of launch before it is offered to other customers at a higher price.

Google developed the Android design to help it expand its successful advertising business into the increasingly lucrative mobile market. It released the parameters to an alliance of mobile phone carriers, developers and manufacturers earlier this year.

Deutsche Telecom's T-Mobile announced in February that it would introduce Android-based phones in the fourth quarter of 2008.

Google: The Google calculator

Google is more than a search engine. Isn't it?

The Google calculator is included in Google.com’s normal web search. So instead of entering words you want to find in web pages, you can simply enter math queries like the following:
10+7*3–12
The Google result will then display the solution:
“10 + (7 * 3) - 12 = 19.”
That’s already a little more fun than using a normal calculator (and incredibly helpful too, at times), but there’s much more to it. Let’s start with an Easter Egg – a hidden function within a program that makes it do something unexpected and interesting – and enter the following:
answer to life, the universe and everything
Entering this will result in the Google calculator showing you the answer “42”.
(If you wish to dig into why google answered so, google for this!!!)

But the fun doesn’t end there. Here are just some more examples of what’s possible, and often these different queries can be combined to larger formulas:
seconds in a year (1 year = 31 556 926 seconds)
furlongs per fortnight (1 furlongs per fortnight = 0.000166309524 m / s)
speed of light in knots (the speed of light = 582 749 918 knots)