User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Technical Update: June 14, 2011/@comment-26744861-20110614192947/@comment-118323-20110615184123

@Godisme - that will be in a later version. I know Ctrl+F does work in the chat window, so you could use that - not the perfect fix, but it can still highlight your name. I want notifications too - they'll be super useful.

For the Labs version we're finalizing private chats and other goodies within the chat window.