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How to do Group Chat in Google Talk

9 October 2007 32 Comments

Google Talk 

One of the major things which Google Talk lacks is the ability to have conference or do Group Chats . Though GTalk Gadget has the option for group chats , it is not present in Google Talk. However there is way of simulating a group chat in Google Talk with the use of Partychat which allows us to create chat rooms for Google talk . PartyChat is an open source project which was created by Akshay Patil in December 2005.

To create and join a chat room follow the given steps


  • Add partychat@gmail.com to your friends list and ask your friends to do so .
    To create a chat room , you have to IM partychat with this command : /create room_name [password(optional)] . This command will create a new chat room . You can also password protect the chat room by specifying a password
  • To join a chat room , IM the partychat with this command : /join room_name [password] . This command will let you join the chat room , if the room is password protected you have to enter the password as well
  • Now you will receive all the messages from different users in the chat room and the message you sent will be broad casted to all the users of the room .
  • To see a list of all the commands just type : /commands

The method is a good way to have a conference with all your friends. I seriously hope that Google update there Gtalk with some more features.

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  • 32 Comments »

    • ram said:

      Wow this is a good tip, great find. Google is very late in pushing new things in to its apps

    • Binny V A said:

      If you have used IRC, this will be easy – otherwise, well, not so easy.

    • Technobuzz.net said:

      Gr8 Tip Madhur

    • Steven Snell said:

      Thanks for the tip.

    • Roxi said:

      Thanks Madhur for the tip.

    • ReviewSaurus said:

      That’s just awesome!!!! Can’t think of anything better in the whole day!

    • Shashank said:

      great yaar… never knew that…

    • Brown Baron said:

      That is one sweet tip buddy. Great find!

    • Ashfame said:

      Nice trick buddy….Stumbled!

    • Pratheep said:

      Great, let me try this… :)

    • Heeren said:

      wow…. another gr8 info by u madhur

    • Symbian said:

      I prefer to use Skype for group chat.

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    • Why Did This Happen? said:

      How-TO: Group Chat with gTalk…

      I stumbled upon this great tutorial on how to enable a group chat within the gTalk appliance.  Go to this site to find out how to enable the feature…….

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    • Mike said:

      Thnx Madhur for the tip :)

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    • paul said:

      Hey guys its now available. try with IE 7 or firefox

    • Windows said:

      Can i change the password of my rooms or can i delete that room? which commands should i use? please reply to my mail as soon as possible ..
      So many thanks!

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    • Jacklin said:

      I’m a skype user too for chatting both group and private. But I am interested to try Gtalk because most of my friends have Gmail.

    • abhishek said:

      u are just mind blowing…+ ur ideas and knowledge guide me so that i can too have the similar type of knowledge as u have…
      any ways u helped me a lot by ur Blog..
      thanx

    • Sudha said:

      How to include group chat in the Gtalk gadget that is already available? Please help me.

    • ivan said:

      Can i change the password of my rooms or can i delete that room? which commands should i use? please reply to my mail as soon as possible ..
      So many thanks!

    • SEO forums said:

      nice trick…will try this one for sure…

    • sanjay said:

      where do i type “/join room_name [password] “?

    • kishorereddy said:

      how can we chat in group chat in g talk.

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