Look what Tony found while using the Google Talk gadget.

1 :
http://aycu20.webshots.com/image/20539/2003496480554663901_rs.jpg

2 :
http://aycu29.webshots.com/image/21668/2003421826444194743_rs.jpg

Anyone else gets it?

In case anyone's missing what I saw, David had set his status to the URL of a YouTube video. In the Google Talk Flash client, I was seeing a YouTube icon and the name of the video instead of just the URL. When having a conversation with him, it showed a thumbnail and the option to play the clip or visit the page.

I know they've had this feature for YouTube URLs in conversations for a while but I've never seen it for statuses before.

A bit more info for anyone who's interested... the gadget calls this rest URL to get the movie details:

http://www.youtube.com/api2_rest?method=youtube.videos.get_details&dev_id=jZ7qUjzhS14&video_id=y8Kyi0WNg40

This API is documented here:

http://www.youtube.com/dev_rest

Be careful, log out before watching porn videos David :-P

lol...
I'm not watching porn. (Well, not on YouTube i'm not :P)

BTW,
This doesn't work neither for Gmail Talk nor Google Talk. :/

I really do like these features. And I know it's been said, but why no updates to the actual Google Talk client?

Rumor has it, that there will be an update real soon.

I think we'll see a new build before August 24.

Ionut
Why August 24?

David
Where can I find out more about the rumour?

Yes... you two sound like you know something we don't....

On August 24, GTalk celebrates its birthday. Last year they added a lot of features in August (http://googletalk.blogspot.com/2006/08/its-finally-here.html).

It's kind of weird how the online version is "better" than the desktop client.

Any idea when the AIM teamup will happen?

Probably soon. Google has shown that it is developing it's actively Talk network now (although Gmail Chat and the Google Talk app haven't been updated).

I found "proof" a while back that Gmail chat would get AIM integration and Multi-User Chat: http://mpwebwizard.com/2007/04/29/multi-user-chat-in-google-talk/

Oddly though, this came to the gadget first.

This feature worked in Google Talk flash edition from the very beginning.