bigblueball.com — Google Gmail Chat now includes animated smileys or emoticons. Is this a sign of what's to come for Google Talk? We've already seen a preview of buddy icons in Talk. Now that they are working with AOL, can we expect more of the same?
Feb 17, 2006 View in Crawl 4
spikexFeb 17, 2006
Excellent! Another addition to the GTalk realm.
epiclecticFeb 17, 2006
Thank heavens we there is an alternative to the "happy face family" of emoticons. Less is more; I like the clean look of these guys.
princegFeb 18, 2006
As long as they have that "clean" look I like them, I don't want GT to become like Msn that ahs a bunch of things like messenger plus and msg discovery etc, I want it to have this nice plainer look.
mreggsaladFeb 18, 2006
Ah, Google getting better, I think that animated smiles are good, so far they haven't bloated it...
fluorescentFeb 18, 2006
Google is walking a fine line between kissing a little market share A$$ and staying true to their zen-like design roots (simple = better). These look emoticons look pretty good, and they help educate the AOL-ers out there. There's more to cyberspace than a stupid yellow smiley.