Google Talk Gadget Released For Personalized Homepages

Google has released a Gadget that allows you to run Google Talk on your personalized homepage, letting you run Talk within your browser without running it in Gmail. The Gadget in some ways has better functionality than even the desktop version of Google Talk, because it puts your instant messages in tabs, a useful feature in other IM programs that GTalk has yet to implement. It has other cool features, like showing YouTube and Google Video videos within the conversation window if a video URL is pasted, as well as photo slideshows from Picasa Web Albums.
There’s even a video on Google’s YouTube account demoing the Gadget:

Other little things:
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Original post by Nathan Weinberg