Hey Mapperz- Interesting, I didn't realize GTalk gadgets were embeddable on other pages. Do other developers here think it'd be a worthy experiment to put a chat room in the group somewhere (like on a page)? I like chats from a social point of view, but I don't actually find them as useful from a support point of view, due to lack of indexing and the expectation of instant feedback.
- pamela On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 2:04 AM, mapperzUK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "It doesn't appear to be too popular" correct > Why is this? Maybe the retro look, and other group members know little > about the channel. > I have been in the IRC channel but yet nobody speaks, yes the are > international time differences ect. > > I am thinking more 2009 than 1989 here > > http://chatroll.com/about > Created by ex Amazon.com and Microsoft Employees. > can be moderated and can be embedded in the web page > This was only a suggestion and want the pro's and cons. > > Google have thier own Google Chat and Web Chat Gadget and has been > fairly popular on the Mapperz blog. > Where people just asking where to find this and how to do that. > http://code.google.com/apis/talk/talk_gadget.html > (just needs to be open ended both ways as not everyone has a > gmail,googlemail account) > > > > "As for the interactive sampler, I do have a version for the Maps API. > I just > need to clean it up and put it in the documentation. Perhaps next > week :) " > > Sounds great looking forward to it. > > Mapperz > http://mapperz.blogspot.com/ > > > On Nov 21, 8:22 pm, "pamela (Google Employee)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hey Mapperz- > > As Bjorn pointed out, there already is an IRC channel that's been around > for > > a few years. It doesn't appear to be too popular, but you're welcome to > hang > > out in it and try to increase it's popularity. > > > > As for the interactive sampler, I do have a version for the Maps API. I > just > > need to clean it up and put it in the documentation. Perhaps next week :) > > > > - pamela > > > > > > > > On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 12:56 AM, marcelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > On Nov 21, 2:47 pm, mapperzUK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Your thoughts? > > > > > I think that having the irc client running all the time can be very > > > distracting. > > > However, I often thought that perhaps we could create a second group, > > > like "Google-Maps-API-OffTopic", for members of this group to discuss > > > anything not API related, from basic Javascript to the color of > > > Hillary's dress. > > > > > This is actually not my own idea, but it is something that Borland > > > implemented many years ago on their NNTP servers, where they host > > > support groups for their products, Delphi and CPP Builder, and it was > > > a huge success. > > > > > The difference with irc is "real time disturbance" versus "read > > > whenever you want to read". > > > > > Just my 2c. > > > > > -- > > > Marcelo -http://maps.forum.nu > > > --- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
