How to do Group Chat in 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.
where do i type “/join room_name [password] “?
how can we chat in group chat in g talk.
Hey,
Very nice trick. But i am unable to create the group chat. After adding the partychat2@gmail.com, the particular id request is under invited list, but not showing in online list, can any one help me plz.
And the commands are not working to0…
I always get many friends on Google.
This really helped me.
Now i can do group chat.
Thanks for sharing Gr8 idea.
Wow! What a wonderful trick. You blog is surprise me always.
Sad to see Google still isn’t implementing XEP0045, multi-user-chat. It’s a basic feature in every other Jabber Client and Server, yet Google supports it in neither.
I still recall when internet was new, and public chatrooms were mostly everything people did. With the success of services like Chatroulette, I cannot believe that there would not be a demand for this.
Great i like it . Good trick there r lots of thing which we are not aware of
thank for sharing this information friend
although there are a lot of tricks as mentioned above it will be useful and nice only if google starts a system like conference chat
I have been looking out for such a thing. Thanks.
I always get many friends on Google.
This really helped me.
Now i can do group chat.
Thanks for sharing Gr8 idea.