Googletalk Status
Thought I’d post re how I got the Google talk status thingy working on the side bar. This was stupidly simple ( after excessive googling that is ). Its easy because of a guy called Nathan Fritz has written a jabber bot called Edgar. The bot adds its self to your Googletalk contacts list, ( this is so it has visibility of your status ) then you can query the PHP status script at the Edgar site.
i.e. for my side bar I have just added the code ( can you call it code ? ) below :
<li>Someone<b><?php readfile(”http://edgar.netflint.net/status.php?
jid=someemail@gmail.com/talk&type=text”); ?></b></li>
May 3rd, 2006 at 6:20 pm
erm, I’ve never seen the point of these as if someone needed to talk to me via google talk they would be at a pc that had the google talk features anyway… so what am I missing? I log onto my email, there’s details there… I’m missing something aren’t I? But what is it?
May 3rd, 2006 at 6:24 pm
dont think your missing anything. There isn’t much point to all this, but it is fun!
May 3rd, 2006 at 6:43 pm
phew, and there was me thinking I was missing out on some really cool geekness
May 4th, 2006 at 3:02 pm
NERDDDSSS!!!
May 4th, 2006 at 3:02 pm
Dude, can you change my avatar, it’s embarrassing.
May 4th, 2006 at 3:03 pm
It looks as though I’ve been caught having a crap.
May 4th, 2006 at 4:21 pm
Tho oddly it’s works with the “NERDDDSSS!!!” comment.
May 4th, 2006 at 6:16 pm
Keep it NERD!
May 15th, 2006 at 4:23 am
“Marleeeeeen, what are the Geeks doing now!?”