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December 20, 2005

ajchat - AJax Instant Messaging on the Fly

Michael Arrington

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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.

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  1. Igor A. Melekhine

    December 20th, 2005 at 11:55 pm

    Hmm. Too bugly…

    But idea is good,
    I’am developing a IRC client with AJAX now…

    But, this good to…

  2. PierreS

    December 21st, 2005 at 12:49 am

    Hey Mike, it went down straight after you left hehe - seems they need a stronger server, but the idea is not bad…

  3. Paul Montgomery

    December 21st, 2005 at 1:16 am

    There needs to be a Web 2.0 IRC channel.

  4. nathan

    December 21st, 2005 at 1:26 am

    I’ll try to be on EFNet today - #web2.0

  5. Cadence

    December 21st, 2005 at 2:34 am

    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.

  6. Marshall

    December 21st, 2005 at 3:33 am

    There’s a WP plug in that does the same thing.

  7. Brent Ashley

    December 21st, 2005 at 5:15 am

    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.

  8. Albert Delgado

    December 21st, 2005 at 5:35 am

    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!

  9. salmanov

    December 21st, 2005 at 5:37 am

    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.

  10. salmanov

    December 21st, 2005 at 5:38 am

    second try finished with ‘500 Internal Server Error’:(

  11. Mbrewer

    December 21st, 2005 at 6:16 am

    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.

  12. Brian Benzinger

    December 21st, 2005 at 9:22 am

    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.

  13. pwb

    December 21st, 2005 at 12:17 pm

    Chatango does this with Flash.

  14. tg

    December 21st, 2005 at 1:50 pm

    Looks like they’re giving the ISP the boot. They got shutdow due to resource usage it seems.

  15. startplane

    December 21st, 2005 at 3:04 pm

    Startplane http://www.startplane.com has a nice ajax chat based on lace.

  16. kiat

    December 23rd, 2005 at 5:23 pm

    its back up again!

  17. Ming Han

    December 24th, 2005 at 6:28 am

    http://www.ajchat.com is back!

  18. Peter Cooper

    February 6th, 2006 at 3:45 pm

    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.bigbold.com/congress/
    Code: http://www.petercooper.co.uk/archives/001101.html
    Embedded demo: http://www.petercooper.co.uk/archives/001039.html

    Take the code and do what you want.

  19. chatnsearch

    March 23rd, 2006 at 8:00 am

    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.chatnsearch.com/addchat.html

    Also this is a hosted service. AJAX, Jabber based.

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    May 23rd, 2006 at 5:22 pm

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  22. btaz

    August 2nd, 2006 at 10:43 am

    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.kewltalkchat.com/p.....wlTalkChat
    Site: http://www.kewltalkchat“>Kewltalk Chat Website

  23. JoJo(real)

    August 18th, 2006 at 3:56 pm

    hey ppl

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