One of the hot buzz phrases in the Web 2.0 space is “integrated communications.” Google has combined Gmail with Google Talk in one application. In essence, you can access the Google chat function within Gmail. So, you get an email from someone (in your contact list) and want to immediately communicate with them, and that response would play better in a real-time “conversation,” Voila, you are there. Nice!

Practically all the mail-messenger companies have some sort of link between mail and chat, but not like this. BTW, this is on a limited rollout initially….