Friday, November 10, 2006

Should Google Fully Integrate Gtalk Within Orkut?

With the official announcement by Google, I was wondering if anyone out there desired more out of the Gtalk plus Orkut integration than simple orange, green and red balls dotting the deep blue forums.

What Orkut has already done with Gtalk is by itself great--but I was hoping for a full blown chat feature underneath my profile, sort of like what Gmail has for its users.

Although Orkut is built using ASP .Net (although it may be running on a Linux server) I was wondering if it would be possible to combine Gtalk's AJAX feature within Orkut's ASP .Net servers in order to allow users to fully chat with their favorite friends.

And if this is possible, should Google implement this within Orkut or would adding this feature make the site more cluttered?

4 opinions:

Haochi said...

All they need to do is tweak some layout in Orkut, and maybe some special setting for Orkut, what server it's running on doesn't matter.
So the answer to your question is: Possible, and I think they should offer such option, but not by default.

Kittu's Blog said...

ohh dear..

if orkut fully integrates the ajax chat interface,, then the spammers can celebrate a *festival* lolllzz

Anonymous said...

not at all

if orkut does that than i will stop orkutting

AP said...

I think Google wants us to scrap more. I heard that Google earns approximately such and such $$ with each scrap. If gtalk is integrated with orkut as they've done in gmail the number of scraps would decrease drastically and people are only gonna use scraps in place of offline messages or something.

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