Shoutbox

I might do the same, although it is yet another thing which needs to get loaded, etc, so dunno. There are other 'solutions' too, but the point is that Google should get their act together and fix such stuff before trying to go 'Web2.0'. The strength of Google is that it is (was?) simplistic and fast. But they are slowly going in the other direction (pages full of JS code, useless flashy fade animations, etc)...