geek talk

Not that we need even more proof that Talk (dot google dot com) is built by geeks (in a good way, dammit), I came across this little feature.  Type something like this...

hello, that's a *very* big world you have there.

...and it's rendered like this...

hello, that's a very big world you have there.

Yep -- that's limited wiki markup, in your chat client!  It would be great if that feature were implemented like text filtering plugins are in MT; you could build custom markup for chat sessions to enable  formatting, keyword shortcuts, URL builders, etc.  Or, of course, a filter that automatically translates everything into pig latin for conducting not-terribly-secure conversations.

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[Bradley]

You can also use _underscores_ around a word to make it italic.

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