I’ve been testing out ajchat tonight with Brian Benzinger (a fellow web 2.0 workgroup member). Like Meebo, Gtalk and e-messenger.net, ajchat is an ajax instant messaging on the fly, that allows you to log in or type anonymously. It’s free. The ajchat blog is here.
At this point, it appears that all chat sessions are public and linked from the home page.
There is also an option to share a chat directly on a webpage, and against my better judgement that is exactly what I am going to do here. If it works, it will appear below. This to me, is a compelling feature that starts to encroach on some of the stuff that Userplane is doing.
UPDATE: I took down the chat box. The entire site went down shortly after I put it up. It was nice while it lasted, though.
UPDATE: Ok, the ajchat site is back up, but very unstable. Trying this again because, frankly, it rocks.
UPDATE: It broke again. Took it down. It looks like their hosting service killed them. For those of you who didn’t see it, really, it was very cool.
Hmm. Too bugly…
But idea is good,
I’am developing a IRC client with AJAX now…
But, this good to…
Hey Mike, it went down straight after you left hehe – seems they need a stronger server, but the idea is not bad…
There needs to be a Web 2.0 IRC channel.
I’ll try to be on EFNet today – #web2.0
Quite like the idea that you can just link to it from your website and instantly have a chat room. Pity you cant register a channel etc at this stage, that would be good.
There’s a WP plug in that does the same thing.
Embedding a chat in your page has been around for quite a while. I’m not sure who could claim encroachment (although maybe you just chose an overly strong word and you just meant overlap)
Tim Aiello and I have been providing a free embeddable DHTML-only BlogChat to anyone who asks at http://www.blogchat.com since 2002. Not quite as rich as the Userplane offering, but shares that feature among others.
A few prototypes popped up around that time although few have survived. I’ve seen frames-based ones that appeared earlier.
Why does it seems lately folks put up web services that seem to be in early Alpha stage? It puts me off from coming back!
yes, i tested it and it was nice until i wanted to sign up. when i clickend in sign up it said the following
Warning: mysql_connect(): User minghan_ajchat has already more than ‘max_user_connections’ active connections in /home/minghan/public_html/includes/config.inc.php on line 8
Site is down. We will be back with you shortly.
second try finished with ‘500 Internal Server Error’:(
This looks neat but suffers from what a lot of Web 2.0 (sorry) products suffer from: scalibilty. It repeatedly crashed w/ MySQL connection errors. He needs to move this over to something that will handle the traffic.
Hah, man. Sad to see it being down right now. Looks like they are working on it again as the password protection came up for it.
But, anyways. That was a lot of fun talking to everyone last night. I loved it, even though the service is now down. It was fun talking with familiar names on it.
Chatango does this with Flash.
Looks like they’re giving the ISP the boot. They got shutdow due to resource usage it seems.
Startplane http://www.startplane.com has a nice ajax chat based on lace.
its back up again!
http://www.ajchat.com is back!
I developed an AJAX chat that’s a lot more natural than some of these in a few hours with Ruby on Rails recently. I released the source code a few days ago.
Demo: http://www.bigb...d.com/congress/
Code: http://www.pete...ves/001101.html
Embedded demo: http://www.pete...ves/001039.html
Take the code and do what you want.
Hi, Here is another similar site with an interesting twist. Chat with others searcing for similar keywords. You can add this tool to your site. Click on http://www.chat...om/addchat.html
Also this is a hosted service. AJAX, Jabber based.
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Another solution that is available is Kewltalk chat
It’s skinnable and only requires an HTML link for your site to work
Demo: http://chat.kew...id=KewlTalkChat
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