Google Talk: Day 1 (I Like It)
I spent a great deal of last night either talking about or using Google Talk. And I'm actually not sick of it yet, just looking forward to chatting more with old friends (hey Gi!). I've never downloaded a chat client on my at-home machine, so I'd never chatted... socially. I mean, chatted and surfed to pages relating to conversation. I IM'd friends for like 3 hours. It was... nice.

I like the integration with gmail. I'm a gmail-only person, and it was good to see all my friends automatically listed as chat buddies.

No Chat Log???

One issue - I had a good long chat about buildering and then closed the window. There were tons of good links in the conversation and lots of fun, ridiculous names for our new buildering crew (we're heading out on Saturday in downtown Raleigh). From what I can tell I lost the conversation when I closed the window - even though I also have Google Desktop.

Google Desktop records/indexes AIM conversations, but not Google Talk? DANG IT!

Google Talk/email Delivering Social Search?

This got me thinking too about the info-richness of chat sessions. Logging and indexing the search/chat/email behavior of a given Google Talk network, while a blatant invasion of privacy, could deliver true social search, and a previously unknown level of relevance.

Yeah I could recruit friends and join a social search site, but why should I when all I have to do to increase the relevance of my search results is use chat and email every day?

Google Talk Tips

These via Philipp.
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