[OWW-Discuss] Google Talk chatback badge

[Austin Che]

    I upgraded our openfire to the evaluation version of Openfire
    Enterprise as it provides many of the things here. For example,
    check out the web client for users:    
    http://openwetware.org:9090/plugins/enterprise/sparkweb/index.jsp

    For guest users, they can go here:
    http://openwetware.org:9090/webchat
    
    They can click on the 'help' group and all users logged in who are
    in that group will receive a message asking if they want to take
    the question and will initiate a web chat with them.

    BTW, I also noticed that mozilla uses this same thing. They
    encourage Firefox users to download the Spark client and to answer
    questions that random users ask from the web
    http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Helping+with+Live+Chat
    
> http://www.google.com/support/talkgadget/bin/answer.py?answer=86171
>
> This allows to have another way of contacting a user in real time 
> without using any desktop software.  See here, for a example: 
> http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Ilya/Sandbox
>
> Potentially, we can provide each OWW user with a badge like this if we 
> register openwetware.org for Google Apps 
> (http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/index.html).
> I think we could even put one automatically on the User page when an OWW 
> account is created.
>
> Also, we could probably use it for group chats like Steering Committee 
> or Lounge.

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Austin Che           <austin at csail.mit.edu>          (617)253-5899