Google Talk From The Browser With Gtalkr

The voice chat and instant messaging client from Google has been implemented as a Flash-based application, usable from any web browser that supports Flash. One way to get an application to run on multiple platforms is to adapt it to a technology like Flash, since Macromedia has created Flash players for operating systems besides Windows. Linux and Mac users can join in the Google Talk fun by trying out pointed out this application on his blog. Gtalkr exists in beta right now, and Malik was able to get some details about future development of the service from Gtalkr's CEO: We're planning on adding extensions that will have integration with del.icio.us, flickr, and other web-based services. The current set of default extensions in Gtalkr are Yahoo! maps which is Flash-based thanks to Yahoo!, a To do list implementation, and a Buddy Pounce implementation which is the example implementation that we'll share with other developers. With some modifications, the news reader could be brought back as an extension to Gtalkr. The extensions mentioned appear in the Gtalkr interface once a user logs in to the client. Developers who want to create extensions for Gtalkr can here