Blurring The Lines Between Gmail and Google Talk

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One of the key concepts Google pushed when integrating their Instant Messaging Client with GMail was the idea of storing all your conversations in a single place - blurring the lines between IM and email. Recently they took it one step further by enabling email replies via IM.

Since February, you’ve been able to “chat” using your Gmail account. And now, if you want to reply to an email message, but notice the sender is online and available, you can just “reply by chat.” Best of all, these chat replies get grouped with the conversation just like email (after all, one of the best things about Gmail is how it groups a message and its replies into the same conversation so that you can always read your messages in context). To use this new feature, look for a link to “Reply by chat” at the bottom of any message sent by someone on your buddy list, right next to where you’d click to “Reply” or “Forward.” The link will show up if the sender is online, and clicking on it will open a chat window where you can start chatting
right away.

Read more at Gmail Support
via Google Friends Newsgroup

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