Gtalkbots.com

Celebrating 1 Millionth status message

noreply@blogger.com (Abhinav.Singh) — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:08:00 +0000

The response has been overwhelming. When we released on 15th September, 2008 we never thought that we would tough 1 millionth status message within 3rd month after release.

For curiosity, the 10,00,000th status message came from:

NickDecent22
@lots of work: Smile costs u nothing!But can make some1 elses day!But dont simply laugh at some1, it can spoil both's day!!!

Keep sharing and reading,

Regards,
Gtalkbots Team

Gtalkbots meet WordPress , Import your blogs

noreply@blogger.com (Abhinav.Singh) — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:48:00 +0000

We continuously keep monitoring what our users are interested in sharing and how can we make sharing more easier for them. We analyzed that after status messages, most shared items are shared item comes from blogs.

Hence to make it easier for our users we integrated wordpress feeds in Gtalkbots.

Simply click on the Sync block and enter your wordpress blog url. After successful import, we will automatically sync in your blog posts as and when you write them in future.

In future we look to support even blogspot and livejournal.

Keep syncing and keep sharing,

Regards,
Gtalkbots Team

Building a timeline for everyone, Check out yours

noreply@blogger.com (Abhinav.Singh) — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 11:06:00 +0000

Anagram - Online gaming first time on Gtalk Messengers

noreply@blogger.com (Abhinav.Singh) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:42:00 +0000

We are pleased to announce first ever game in the history of Gtalk messengers. Anagram, many of you might be familiar with it or even played many a times back in school and colleges.

Its a simple text based game, where you are given a jumbled word and you need to re-arrange it. E.g. You will be given huldos and you need to quickly identify that as should.

So getting bored back in college or office, add games@gtalkbots.com and type anagram to start gaming. Play and score well. Your score will turn up on the Gtalkbots front page.

We have kept this game open for the world i.e. one can play this game even without registering at Gtalkbots. However we will only save scores for registered users in our database.

A few important points:

Add games@gtalkbots.com as your friend in Gtalk Messenger.
Type rules to read them before you start gaming.
Type anagram to start gaming.
You will be given a jumbled word which you needs to rearrange and reply back.
If your answer is correct you get 10 Points.
If your answer is not correct and you are finding it tough to solve it, Type hint to get a clue, and a clue will be sent to all users playing the game.
DO NOT FORGET to type exit when you are finished gaming. If you forget to do so, you will be considered as a part of next round being played and eventually your average score decreases.
If total number of wrong answers = 5 (including all users), the bot will automatically reply back with correct answer and moves to the next word.

So try out and enjoy.
Do let us know about your suggestions and comments.

Regards,
Gtalkbots Team

Select one out of 37 themes, Jazz up your page

noreply@blogger.com (Abhinav.Singh) — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:32:00 +0000

Colors! Colors! Colors! Are you bored of the classic theme. No worries, now choose one out of the 37 possible themes, customize and jazz up your page.

Simply click on Themes on top right corner of the header and choose your theme from the dialog box. Here are the steps to make it easy for you:

Click on Themes on top right corner of the page:
Choose a theme from the dialog box. You may test all the themes and when you are satisfied simply click Apply Theme:

Its as simple as this. We will introduce more themes in near future to meet everyone's mood and flavour.

Regards,

Gtalkbots Team

Sharing and Embedding made more easy

noreply@blogger.com (Abhinav.Singh) — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:53:00 +0000

Are you lazy enough to open bots@gtalkbots.com and type in your stuff to share or embed? Then this one is for you.

Here are the steps:

Click on Click to Share link on the sub-menu items.
A modal pop-up will open with a textbox in it.
Simply copy paster your status message and click Share my Stuff.
Additionally if you want to embed your video, slide show etc, click on [embed][/embed] after pasting your embed code. It will automatically put the required tags around your embed code.

Keep sharing your stuffs,

Regards,
Gtalkbots Team

[New] Set a timer for you and your friends

noreply@blogger.com (Abhinav.Singh) — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:51:00 +0000

How often it does happen that you and your net freak friend plan out a movie and he never makes it in time. You just wishes if there was something which could remind him on his screen about the movie which you have planned together.

Gtalkbots.com makes it all easy for you now. You can now set timer for yourself as well as for your friends whom you follow at Gtalkbots.com.

Steps to set a timer:

Click on Set Timer on top left corner
A modal pop-up window will appear on the screen.
Choose a time for the timer
Enter the username of your friend, for whom you are setting the timer (leave as self for yourself)
Enter a message, which you want to appear along with timer on your or your friend screen.
Click Set Timer and thats it.

Below is an example modal pop-up window which you will see:

Who all can set a timer for me?
By default all your friend who are tracking you on Gtalkbots.com can set a timer for you.

What if I don't want a timer from anyone?
We respect your privacy and we have made provisions for you to choose between who can and who cannot set a timer for you. Simply visit Manage Timer section under My Stuff

There you will see 3 panels:

Upcoming timers for you, which tells what all timer you can expect for yourself. If you want, you can cancel an upcoming timer.
Timers set by you, shows timers set by you for your friends. You may cancel a timer, previously set by you.
Grant and Revoke Permissions: By default all users who are tracking you can set a timer for you. You may choose to revoke these permission from one or from all at once.

Finally, here is a screen shot from the bot sending an alert at your specified timer time.

Try out and let us know your feedbacks on this new addon.
Keep sharing your status messages,

Regards,
Gtalkbots Team

How to embed your Videos, Photos, Slideshows?

noreply@blogger.com (Abhinav.Singh) — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:55:00 +0000

Looking at our user's eagerness to share videos, photos, slideshows from various other domains (not only from youtube) , we have enabled manual embedding of your stuff.

How do I embed my YouTube video?
You don't have to do any extra effort for embedding your youtube videos. Simply paste the url of your youtube video and we take care of embedding that properly.

How do I share a video from elsewhere?
Simply copy the embed code from the site from where you wish to embed the video. For instance if you want to embed a video from metatube, do the following:

<share>[embed]Your MetaTube Video Code[/embed]

How do I embed a slideshow from slideshare?
As similar to above example, do the following:

<share>[embed]Your SlideShare Slide Code[/embed]

See an embedded slideshare slide here.
http://gtalkbots.com/permalink/shared/291489

Can I embed anything I want to?
Yes you can embed anything that you want to, by simply following:

<share>[embed]Your Embed Code[/embed]

Hopefully you will love this addition,

Regards,
Gtalkbots Team

[My Diary] is now [My Stuff]

noreply@blogger.com (Abhinav.Singh) — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:24:00 +0000

As we plan to introduce new features which will help our users in their day to day activities, we have made a small modification in the tab region.

My Diary will now be denoted as My Stuff

As and when we release new features, you will see more sub-tabs under My Stuff

Till then keep sharing your status messages,

Regards,
Gtalkbots Team

Introducing College Networks

noreply@blogger.com (Abhinav.Singh) — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:14:00 +0000

Today on 15th October 2008, exactly one month after our release we are pleased to announce college networks for all students around the globe.

Click to join your network - http://gtalkbots.com/college

As our database reached over 2,00,000 status messages within 1st month of release, we felt a need of college level networking. College which are indeed one of the best thing that can happen in someone's life, we thought why not have those moments captured.

Our status messages at college often reflect day to day activities in and around college. Be it a joke, fun, announcement, jazzy and crazy status, show offs, confessions, news or whatever - every moment is worth capturing.

Alumni's can use this to keep a track of the latest activities going in and around their college through status messages set by the students at the college.

Regards,
Gtalkbots Team

A Note of thanks to bloggers who reviewed us

noreply@blogger.com (Abhinav.Singh) — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:28:00 +0000

We would like to give a note of thank to all the bloggers who reviewed Gtalkbots.com on their blogs.

Thanks again for your wonderful reviews and spreading the word.

Regards,
Gtalkbots Team

122,357 status messages from 13 Countries in first 3 weeks

noreply@blogger.com (Abhinav.Singh) — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:21:00 +0000

This is something we thought of sharing with our users and those who will join us after reading this. It was really an overwhelming response on our release and as a result of which we have 122,357 status messages saved of users from 13 different countries in first 3 weeks of release.

Users span mainly from India, US, Brazil, Portugal, France and U.K.

In next few weeks we will be coming up with several cool addons which will help you in your day to day needs. Meanwhile don't hesitate to chip in with your suggestions. Let us know of a cool idea or implementation which you think can make a difference.

Thanks to those who are freely sharing their statuses through chat messengers and posts by messaging them to bots@gtalkbots.com

Regards,
Gtalkbots Team

Sharing your stuff made easy - no login required

noreply@blogger.com (Abhinav.Singh) — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:09:00 +0000

On 2nd October, 2008 we introduced a cool new feature making it easier for you to share your status messages, posts, links, jokes etc. All you need to do now is to message your stuff to bots@gtalkbots.com.

If you wish to share a link
http://mybloglink.com

simply message
<share> http://mybloglink.com

to bots@gtalkbots.com and it will automatically share your message/post/stuff with the world.

If you wish to unshare this at a later stage, you can do that by logging in and visiting Manage Shared Status section under My Status

Happy sharing,

Regards,
Gtalkbots Team

Launching widget for your blogs

noreply@blogger.com (Abhinav.Singh) — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:01:00 +0000

We all love showing off our status messages. Then why just restrict them to our online friends list. To help you we launched our first widget on 1st October, 2008. Grab the widget, embed it anywhere - on your blog, sites, social networking profiles and enjoy.

You can choose to put your, your friends, shared status from the world or apply any other filter and get the required status messages.

Click to grab your widget now.

You can view the demo of the widget on the right hand side of our blog. The widget is currently available in color of blue and black. We will soon add a lot to suit your blog color.

Grab it now,

Regards,
Gtalkbots Team

Introducing online personal diary and notes saving

noreply@blogger.com (Abhinav.Singh) — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:48:00 +0000

One of the most powerful feature we introduced a few days after release (on 28th September,2008) is online personal diary and notes saving. Often it happens that you are at your workplace and you need to save some important notes, phone numbers, links. You don't want to save them in a text file which gets lost in thousand other files on your disk. At the same time you want to access them from anywhere in the world.

We make it simple for you by allowing you to save your personal notes by simply messaging them to bots@gtalkbots.com.

If you wish to save
John Doe Phone Number: +91-9876543210

Simply message
<notes> John Doe Phone Number: +91-9876543210

to bots@gtalkbots.com and thats it. You can then view them online upon login.

How secure and private is this?
We are very concerned about safeguarding the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information. We employ administrative, physical and electronic measures designed to protect your information from unauthorized access. To read more about our privacy policies read our privacy policy

Try this out,
Hundreds are saving and maintaining their diary online already.
Get yours on Gtalkbots

Regards,
Gtalkbots Team

Gtalkbots.com - Changing the way we use our chat messengers

noreply@blogger.com (Abhinav.Singh) — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:14:00 +0000

How it all started?
It all started one fine evening when I and my friend Sowmya were recalling the good old days at our IITG campus. We were just wondering how beautiful those days were and at the same time we were repenting that we didn't have enough moments captured on our digicam.

Then Sowmya just poked in with an idea, why not have something which can save her and all her friends status messages. Those status messages, which generally reflect one's day to day activity, mood, schedule, message, quote, funda, bakarz, fun, joke and what not.

Create a timeline of your and your friends by saving status messages
In next few days I came up with a demo chat bot abhinav.bot@gmail.com (not functional now) which could track all mine and my friends status messages. Cool, it really worked like a charm. Then we thought why not make something which everyone can use and hence we came up with http://gtalkbots.com on 15th September, 2008. Now everyone can save their friends status messages just by adding bots@gtalkbots.com to their gtalk friends list.

Don't have a pen at work, no worries. You have Gtalkbots now
In a few days after release, we extended Gtalkbots, from just a status saving service to an online diary and personal notes saving service too. This allows one to save his/her daily important notes just by messaging them to bots@gtalkbots.com. I am lazy and after college I seldom have a pen in my pocket or bag. And then when I had to save some notes at the office, I really had no way to write them down. But with this service, I can save and access them from anywhere and anytime just by messaging my note to bots@gtalkbots.com

In future we look to extend Gtalkbots.com in a way which will change the way we all use our chat messengers.

Try out,

Share and Promote if you like it.

Regards,

Gtalkbots Team