Google imitates LiveJournal

I suppose it must be the most sincere form of flattery, but Google started to integrate Orkut with Gtalk. So far though, Gaim does not seem to pick the new connections added through Orkut, although their web applet does (even after restarting). Also... They use a Flash applet to set a JavaScript variable. If that sounds too crazy to believe, look at Control-U and gtalk001.js. I suppose I'm lucky my browser hasn't crashed yet.

{Update: In the morning, Gaim started updating, after a fashion. New buddies are added to a default group, so I have to drag them where they belong one by one.}

{Update 2006/11/10: They add buddies with e-mail addresses which are registered with Orkut. But they are NOT the addresses used for jabbering! They should've used the sign-in name for Orkut and gmail.com domain, or else this won't work.}

Syndicated 2006-11-09 13:09:16 (Updated 2006-11-10 18:39:09) from Pete Zaitcev