{"id":997,"date":"2008-02-28T08:58:53","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T03:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2008\/02\/28\/invisible-mode-is-here-for-gmail-chat\/"},"modified":"2008-02-28T08:58:53","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T03:28:53","slug":"invisible-mode-is-here-for-gmail-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2008\/02\/28\/invisible-mode-is-here-for-gmail-chat\/","title":{"rendered":"Invisible mode is here for Gmail chat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you need to chat with someone about an urgent project, but can&#8217;t be bothered by anyone else. And going &#8220;busy&#8221; just isn&#8217;t enough &#8212; you might still get that unwanted ping. So, as some people have already <a href=\"http:\/\/blogsearch.google.com\/blogsearch?q=gmail+invisible+mode\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"noticed\">noticed<\/a>, we rolled out invisible mode for the <a href=\"http:\/\/gmailblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/code-changes-to-prepare-gmail-for.html\" id=\"ss6w\" title=\"latest version\">latest version<\/a> of Gmail chat last Friday. With this feature, you can appear offline, and still send and receive messages. If you&#8217;re using <a href=\"http:\/\/gmailblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/gmail-chat-aim-crazy-delicious.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"AIM through Gmail\">AIM in Gmail<\/a>, invisible mode also makes you appear signed out on the AIM network. Invisible mode is one of the most <a href=\"https:\/\/services.google.com\/inquiry\/talk_suggest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"requested chat features\">requested chat features<\/a> and so we&#8217;re happy to add this option, starting in Gmail Chat, and in the future all Talk clients.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_h25OVwYBPlg\/R8Ny9uvoaLI\/AAAAAAAAAK0\/GG3rKg591-w\/s1600-h\/invisible.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_h25OVwYBPlg\/R8Ny9uvoaLI\/AAAAAAAAAK0\/GG3rKg591-w\/s400\/invisible.png\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5171103201996859570\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As some of you have <a href=\"http:\/\/googlesystem.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/invisible-more-for-gmail-chat.html\" id=\"fy3d\" title=\"already noted\">already noted<\/a>, chat could be less useful if lots of people go invisible. We&#8217;ll keep an eye on it and look for your feedback to be sure we&#8217;re doing what&#8217;s best for the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you need to chat with someone about an urgent project, but can&#8217;t be bothered by anyone else. And going &#8220;busy&#8221; just isn&#8217;t enough &#8212; you might still get that unwanted ping. So, as some people have already noticed, we rolled out invisible mode for the latest version of Gmail chat last Friday. With this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[167],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","tag-google","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}