Google Talk Gadget Gets Features First

window.document.getElementById(‘post-3845’).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Ionut Alex posted about a new feature added to the Google Talk Gadget for iGoogle, which can now handle multi-user chat. The chat client now lets you click a Group Chat button to invite more than just two people into a chat, something you cannot do in the regular PC software, or in the Gmail chat version. In fact, if you invite someone using any Gtalk-compatible client other than the iGoogle Gadget, it won’t work, and they’ll just be sent a link.
For the most part, the new feature doesn’t make sense. The Gadget is a supplement to the real client, so why does it have features the real one doesn’t? Most likely, and this is just speculation, there’s been development of a version 2.0 of Google Talk that will support this feature, but the client has suffered major delays, enough to the point […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg