An awesome implementation of a simple idea. Gtalkr is a Flash based web client to Google Talk. Meebo kinda pounced on the idea of getting your IM clients online, removing the hassles of maintaining different IM clients on your desktop and allowing you to move the clients to the web, so that you can get online on your favourite IM from anywhere, any desktop.
Gtalkr, extends the same concept but in a neat slick Flash implementation. There had been Flash clients for Gtalk in past, but Gtalkr beats them all. Once you log in using your GMail account, Gtalkr brings in your contacts (added in Google Talk), and also your address book from GMail. You can open chat window by clicking on any of the contacts.
Apart from the regular features Gtalkr provides Extension APIs to let you write extensions to Gtalkr framework.
Gtalkr exposes a simple and easy to use Extension API allowing you to embed any Flash and even Flex content in Gtalkr.
The UI looks slick with a totally user friendly experience. You can ‘run’ any extension that you have available. By default there is a Yahoo Maps (beta) extension available, which can be used to readily locate someone without leaving your current window, which is a nice add-on.
The chat inbox feature lets you see your past chats, which are stored here by contact names, which can be selected to see the entire chat history. These chats can also be tagged (& searched later on) and ’starred’ as in GMail.
‘Buddy pouce’ extension lets you drag and drop contacts onto the extension window, so that whenever the contacts in this list get online, you get an alert. You can also get alerts for new incoming emails on your GMail account.
I have been playing with it for past 30 mins, and so far havent got into any user experience turn offs.
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以前看到过Ajax驱动的Meebo:Web版IM网站。今天看到了Gtalkr.com，Gtalk的flash web版，说它是web版，更恰当的应该说是Gtalkr=Web Flash Gtalk+Plus.
Its really nice and impressive…perhaps this will make Macromedia happy.