Filed under : Google Talk

IBNLive, one of the online news portals in India, recently launched IBNLive Gtalk Buddy.

This lets you get the latest news on your Gtalk client by sending a message to the IBNLive GTalk Buddy.

All you have to do is add "im@ibnalerts.com" to your friends list on Google Talk, that's all. Now whenever you want to know whats happening around the world just send a message "Top" to im@ibnalerts.com and get the latest news delivered at your Google Talk.

These are the other keywords you can use:

top: Gets you all the latest stories from IBNLive
sports: Gets you all the latest sports stories from IBNLive
biz: Gets you all the latest business stories from IBNLive
ent: Gets you all the latest showbiz stories from IBNLive
search: Search IBNLive’s stories (Example: "search Euro 2000")
subscribe: Shows you the ways in which you can subscribe to or manage alerts

Once you add im@ibnalerts.com to your list. Status will continue to show as "invited" but you can start using it rightaway.