Some people might enjoy this: Gmail.com maps to GoogleMail.com, so every @gmail.com email address also is a @googlemail.com address. In other words, if you’re joeyjoejoejunior@gmail.com, all email to joeyjoejoejunior@googlemail.com also goes to your inbox, due to legal and trademark issues in other countries. If you want a second address, there you go!
You can now add a Google Talk badge to your blog/website, letting your visitors chat with you at any time right in the website. As long as you are signed into your Google Talk account, even if visitors do not have an account of their own, they can just start chatting with you, with multiple conversations coming in tabs. Visit the Google Talk Chatback page to get the HTML and get started.
(via Amit)
Microsoft’s got something planned for release in this area in the next few days, too. They don’t seem happy with Google’s announcement, from what I’m hearing.
Seeking Alpha reports that Fox Interactive and Google are looking beyond their current advertising deal, with Google saying they regret making the agreement and Fox looking to Microsoft as their next partner. It is unknown what sort of termination payouts will be required to end the deal, but if Google wants desperately out of the sinkhole $900 million MySpace deal it made less than a year and a half ago, it’ll probably cost a pretty penny.
Then winner in all this should be Microsoft. If they can swing the MySpace deal, then make money where Google couldn’t, they’ll prove that their assertion that Google is a search ad company that doesn’t do brand and display advertising right will be seriously bolstered. Microsoft can do more than make money from this move, they can get the rest of the market to take them more seriously.
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