Google Talk Chatback Website Widget

I was just playing with the new Google Talk Chatback Widget. It allows you to allow anonymous chats from your web page for your customers and site visitors.

I was just researching using this last week for a client who was asking for it and didn't much care for the Boldchat they were using.

It is a great FREE or low cost web site chat and support module. Just yet another innovative use for the Google Platform. I use the Google services for so much these days.

I went ahead and added to my web site, since I leave my Gmail open all day and live in my Google Desktop it was a natural fit to have on my blog.

Google Home for Your Kids

A while back I started helping my daughter Kaia build her blog at http://kaialane.blogspot.com/. She really likes making pictures and stories and posting there from time to time.

Recently she has been learning to read and write more so she started to want to chat with me and got on her mom's IM and would talk to me at work.

So recently she said she wanted to chat with me on her own chat. So I set up a Google Account for her and setup a Gmail account so she can email and use google chat to talk with me.

I live on my Google Home Page so this was a great way for her to interact with me. I taught her how to use it and she now uses the IGoogle as her start page and chats with me.

It got me thinking of other advantages of having my kids use a Google Home Page such as family bookmarking, and monitoring their web behavior using Google Web History.

More to come on this topic.