August 23, 2006

Google Talk's Birthday Logo

There are so many Google birthdays these days that it's hard to write about something else. First, Sergey Brin's birthday, today Blogger turns seven, and tomorrow Google Talk will have one year of existence. So I decided to create a calendar to keep track of the most important Google events.

What's a birthday without a small change? Customize Talk found a nice Easter egg: if you change the date of your computer to August 24, Google Talk's logo will change. That means more than 44,000 users will have a big surprise tomorrow.



One year ago, Google Talk's Chad Thornton wrote:

"Designers rarely get to work on their dream projects. When I was researching instant messaging in grad school, the prospect of designing a new instant messaging product was fanciful at best. When I came to Google, the odds improved a bit. When I became the designer on Google Talk, it still didn't quite seem real until we launched today.

Google Talk is far from perfect, but it's a start, and we chose to start with simplicity. Big plans are in the works, but for now I'm enjoying it for what it is. Hope you do too."

I think it's on the right track.

More GTalk:
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6 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 23, 2006 at 1:07 PM

    any chance of posting a link to add that calander to our google calander?
    cause the link you posted is just for the calander's 3 events this week.

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  2. Alex ChituAugust 23, 2006 at 1:15 PM

    The calendar is a work in progress. It was created 15 minutes ago, so it does have only three events. I'll add more, but I'll try to stick only to important events.

    You can subscribe using the small link from the bottom-right corner that says "Subscribe with Google Calendar" or by clicking here.

    The calendar is public and it will be linked from the homepage when it will contain more events.

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  3. AnonymousAugust 23, 2006 at 6:18 PM

    wow, i knew i was missing that subsrcibe link!
    anyway, if you need help adding events to it, send me a email, i'll help if i can lord.xeon@deadlycomputer.com

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  4. AnonymousAugust 23, 2006 at 9:16 PM

    Ionuţ, uite ceva interesant:
    http://services.google.com/earth/green/

    Am ajuns la asta printr-un banner de pe slate.com. Poate ţi se va părea interesant.

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  5. TOMHTMLAugust 24, 2006 at 1:10 AM

    If you need informations for you calendar, you can pick some of them from our calendar ;-)

    Thanks for the logo, I see it too now

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  6. FErArgAugust 24, 2006 at 5:17 AM

    The Birthday Logo don´t appear in GTalk Spanish Version

    :(

    FErArg

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