How to do Group Chat in Google Talk
By Madhur Kapoor on Oct 9, 2007 in Google, Tech, Tutorials
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.
Wow this is a good tip, great find. Google is very late in pushing new things in to its apps
ram | Oct 9, 2007 | Reply
If you have used IRC, this will be easy - otherwise, well, not so easy.
Binny V A | Oct 9, 2007 | Reply
Gr8 Tip Madhur
Technobuzz.net | Oct 9, 2007 | Reply
Thanks for the tip.
Steven Snell | Oct 10, 2007 | Reply
Thanks Madhur for the tip.
Roxi | Oct 10, 2007 | Reply
That’s just awesome!!!! Can’t think of anything better in the whole day!
ReviewSaurus | Oct 10, 2007 | Reply
great yaar… never knew that…
Shashank | Oct 10, 2007 | Reply
That is one sweet tip buddy. Great find!
Brown Baron | Oct 10, 2007 | Reply
Nice trick buddy….Stumbled!
Ashfame | Oct 10, 2007 | Reply
Great, let me try this…
Pratheep | Oct 11, 2007 | Reply
wow…. another gr8 info by u madhur
Heeren | Oct 11, 2007 | Reply
I prefer to use Skype for group chat.
Symbian | Oct 11, 2007 | Reply
Thnx Madhur for the tip
Mike | Oct 31, 2007 | Reply
Its mistake
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MikeZ | Oct 31, 2007 | Reply
Hey guys its now available. try with IE 7 or firefox
paul | Mar 28, 2008 | Reply
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!
Windows | Apr 8, 2008 | Reply
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Manage a Group | May 3, 2008 | Reply
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.
Jacklin | May 9, 2008 | Reply