Chat within Gmail

A new Gmail feature just announced allows you to chat with your friends from right inside Gmail. There’s no need to load a separate program or look up new addresses. It’s just one click to chat with the people you already email, as well as anyone on the Google Talk network. And now you can even save and search for chats in your Gmail account.

There are other features too..

• Add contacts and invite your friends to chat from Quick Contacts
• See when your friends are online
• Set your status to busy, sleepy, angry or whatever. Even sneezy.
• Get Google Talk to make free voice calls too. It’s completely synchronized with Quick Contacts
• Go off the record when you’re chatting so nothing gets saved to anyone’s Gmail account

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