GTalkr was a web-based Flash program that I used once in a while to connect with my friends on Google Talk. It disappeared in May 2006 as the developers got hired by Google.

Some of the readers over at Customize Talk are affraid that Google is now gonna be focusing more on the webclient then the Google Talk application. I guess they are wrong, and that this is the work of the former GTalkr developers. Why? First of all, cause they got hired by Google and secondly cause of the similarities between the clients. Gtalkr had widgets for Flickr and YouTube, and the new client has gotten the same support for YouTube (that since then got bought by Google) and PicasaWeb (which is Google’s Flickr competitor).

Something that GTalkr lacked was support for VoIP. This seems now to have been added, and I guess this has been the reason why it took more or less for Google Talk to get it’s web client.

I have set up a static Talk page on this site, as a few of my friends cannot install Google Talk on their work machines. You need Flash 8 and a decent OS to use the web client…