Google wants to push their instant messenging service Google Talk, nicknamed GTalk by some. SO far, nothing very surprising when you think about the amount of traffic MSN is getting just because people keep using MSN Messenger for their daily I-should-be-working-but-I’d-rather-be-flirting routine… So they implemented a new “Chats” tab in Gmail main menu where you can see your previous chat sessions logs and of course search them via Gmail, and so on. Rumors are that we will soon be able to chat directly from within Gmail too.

What is interesting to me, is that they changed Gmail logo to include “Talk”. And the strange part is that “Talk” replaced “Google” actually… This is how important it is for Google to push this service, even if they don’t even have the available space to sign their own name anymore!

And since Gmail logo was really ugly and not that well done (Google people, if you are looking for a graphic designer, I know a few people for you), they took the opportunity and the time to clean it up a little and give it a little pseudo-Aqua touch while they were at it. Good.

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