Google Chat on your Website: Google Talk Chatback
Leave it to Google to create another handy tool. This time it is the add on element to Google Talk called “Chatback”, or a chatback badge. Perhaps you have been on a website and seen a link to “Chat with our support personnel” or some sort of image or link to that effect. This is Google’s version of that implementation, except free. You can seen an example of this on the bottom of our website, the link to “Chat with Sators.com”.
The first step is that you must already be a Google Talk user. Following that, you can go to their chatback page and create a new chatback badge for your site. The options are somewhat limited, but once the code is copied and pasted to your website, you are live and ready! When an user clicks the link, you get an IM from Google through your Google Talk account containing a link. Clicking on the link takes you to a webpage notifying you that someone wishes to chat with you and a button to launch the chat. After a few seconds, you are then connected with the awaiting user on the other end. It’s as simple as that.
Tags: badge, chatback, google talk
