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>