The video chat company PalTalk will go live on Monday with a new social networking service designed to be a proof of concept for the inclusion of video chat in social networks. PalTalk already has a thriving business in powering huge video chat rooms but the company believes their technology is the next logical step to create what they call Social Networking 3.0. If the first iteration was basic networking, 2.0 was layering richer self expression on the networks and 3.0 is real time video communication, they say. Makes sense to me.
PalTalk operates through a Windows desktop client and has already proven itself very scalable. It uses GAIM to create a consolidated buddy list across AIM, Yahoo Messenger and ICQ. The company says that its 4 million users often have 5,000 chat rooms open at any given time. The largest room they’ve had open at once included 3,000 people. Cringe-radio stars Opie and Anthony use PalTalk for their chat room and regularly interact with between 1 and 2 thousand people at the same time. I asked the people behind PalTalk how that would be logistically feasible and they said there was a lot of hand-raising going on.
Monday’s launch of the social networking system, called People 2.0, will demonstrate the usefulness and feasibility of video chat in social networking, the company hopes. The technology will then be licensed anywhere that groups of people gather online. PalTalk’s technology is currently free to download, with a paid upgrade available but no prices or service level comparison easily discoverable.
The fact that there is no Mac version of PalTalk is a real shame and the company says that is one of their most frequent requests. The particular social networking implementation unveiled Monday is likely to be unimportant in its other features and details, but the company did tell me they were interested in pursuing open identity standards – for whatever that’s worth.
If social networking is really about more than just contacts between individuals and if people do want to connect in real time with a community of interest – then group video chat makes sense to me. Text chat in the social networking world is so anemic right now that I can imagine video chat setting the space on fire. Will people download desktop clients to access the function? Probably. Will they pay for it? Maybe, but licensees may offer it for free as well.
Me and my friend Ramone love using PalTalk for the OnA show.
No msn? No thanx.
Am I missing something or this is a Gaim client with video and group chat?
hi i just want us to be friends .an 16 in college in ghana.
Beware- The install wants to install spyware under the guise of a pop-up blocker. The video service is also a pay service. Stay away, very far away.
I think this is what Userplane already does on hundreds of social networking sites including MySpace – right? : )
Imagine the amount of cybersex that will be going on.
You can not imagine how Paltalk wonderful, best video and sound.
You can not imagine how much Paltalk is wonderful, best video and sound.
Was reading the so far issued comments regarding Paltalk. Some like it or even love that communication program… some don`t. A few things which must be said: hackers have it not easy in Paltalk to catch someones IP as all data there gets proxied via the Paltalk proxy server, and that IS a great advantage to other communication programs. Some other person in here mentioned “the installation of spyware under the guise of a pop up blocker”. Paltalk asks the user first if they want to install it or not. I did not. In other words my Paltalk is clean and it works excellent. Oh yes, there is cybersex going on like in all other chat programs, but Paltalk takes care that this happens only in the Adult categories/sections and has highest standard on Child safety and Parental control
( http://support....com/safety.html ). Yep true, the free version of Paltalk will not give permanent video, but you can use it and still see video even if only for 15 seconds and the user has the chance either to wait 2 minutes till he/she could call up same video up again or they just call up the next nickname who is publishing a webcam to see 15 seconds of that person. And as there are rooms in Paltalk with more than 100 webcams running same time it will keep even those with the free version busy to see most if not all videos. After testing almost all communication programs in the Net in alpha- and beta-versions for last 16 years I finally got stuck with Paltalk.
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Paltalk is, in my opinion one of the best ‘chat’ communication programmes on the Net. It has structure, form, and is well supported – although some of the ad hoc ‘rules’ can be repressive!
On a professional level the potential for Paltalk usage is spectacular. Web conferencing through this medium brings a new dimension……… as a teaching medium it has tremendous potential ….. they could be just a step away from being market leaders in this field.
Paltalk is an excellent program which is constantly evolving. It provides hours of entertainment and is a cheap way to contact friends and family. Highly recommended.
Paltalk provides many services to its customers. One of the many useful services is online help. Voluntary staff are available to assist Paltalk customers 24/7. There are several help lobbies to choose from where you will find friendly, helpful staff to assist you. This is an excellent service which can’t be found anywhere else on the internet.
Paltalk is the best programme in the internet. On paltalk you can get a live assistance. We have a lot of Paltalk help rooms by all the language, Arabic, French, Spanish, Russian and of course English. And all the helpers are really helpful and they are really nice. I hope see all of you on paltalk.
To finish: I want to say Thanks Paltalk for accepting us as users or helpers and I LOVE YOU SO MUCH.
Thanks,
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PalTalk rocks. There are a few Podcasters who use it to broadcast live. O&A Party Rock.
Umm….why no MSN & Yahoo support?
Don’t know about u guys…but signed up for the service last week using a newly created email account on our server…and it has been spammed to death… The only site that we have submitted this specific email addy to is PalTalk…
Anyways, have uninstalled PalTalk as well as deleted that email account from our server. After installing PalTalk we started getting AFF and Casino ads popping up on our test computer, so we ran Counterspy, Adaware, Spybot, and Ewido to clear out any spywares/adwares that PalTalk left behind.
danny….. strange… I run Spybot-, adAware- and Microsoft Antispyware-scans every day and I have permanently Zonealarm security Suite running (includes anti-spy) and the only probs I had so far were finally leading back to eMail accounts I created which were not pop3-emails…. but you sure used a pop3 eMail which are the secure ones in the net.
Paltalk, if installed correctly without any additional offers, is spyware free. That reminds me on a additional program issued by Microsoft last week… Messenger Plus which kind of upgrades the Messenger there. If you click and accept “Support Our Sponsors” you install some nice spyware.
However, we all should be aware that there is NOTHING for free in the Internet. Regarding Paltalk in this case > either you subscribe to run the paid version, which gives you permanent video, no more annoying pop ups and advertizements, whilst in the free version you get a lot of ads coming up and the pop ups realy can be annoying. Servers and specific staff for such a huge program cost money, we sometimes keep forgetting that. So this way I prefer a program like Paltalk which gives me ads instead of absolute unwanted spy- or adware as many other programs do.
Danny, I don`t know what went wrong on your end…. strange indeed
Forewarned is forearmed..stay away from this program…unless you love spam!
1. Severly slows down your processor.
2. Installs malware, masking itself as a “pop up blocker”.
3. The admins are next to useless.
4. Teens are allowed to get into the “adult xxx” rooms. They’re only booted if they’re accidently spotted.
5. For video, you need to pay Paltalk.
Stay away from this program. Seriously.
I’ve used Paltalk for several years now, it is an excellent program. There are lots of options to choose from. The Paltalk staff are very friendly and helpful.
Paltalk is top notch for a chat program so far. Have tried other programs and they all fall short; of course don’t have a mac so cannot address the use of their chat program which is probably excellent too. Always watch out for the psychotics on there though, laughing, laughing but seriously. And, all that I sense you are evil crap is from people who know nothing. Anyway, if the program makes you ill after use, uninstall, and forget about it as you shouldn’t be bothered when you come online just like in real life…BUT it does happen.
paltalk rooms are not accessible untill you pay, it’s what i’m calling DISCUSTING!! be away from this prog!!
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Paltalk is the BEST chat program on the NET and for those saying bad comments on it, YOUR WRONG. Paltalk is Adware, Spyware Free. Paltalk gives YOU the ability to subscribe, but there is NO FORCED Upgrading. Paltalk is a FREE Program with 24/7 support which NO other chat program Offers. Try Paltalk, its Awesome. http://www.paltalk.com
Best? Maybe the busiest. Just be aware nothing is private Reds can and do read your private messages, view cams from invisible mode. Bounce you out of rooms for fun, and or off the program. There ya go for your 24/7 support, it can turn into 24/7 harassment. NO thanks.
Yo, whatever some evil or uknown users might say here. Paltalk rooms are accessable “without” pay. You even can open 1 yourself with up to 200 people or with personlal password for up to ten. Modem will do for voice. Camservice is 49 $ for 3 windows you can change by scrolling the user. No spyware so if someone gets it it wil be send from many other mailawre. only tracking cookie is harmless and found by addawre straiftt away. Get informed or shut up about stuff You do not know about. You could hold a boardmeating in paltalk vey cheap. Course it is to a degree controlled or uninformed morons without information acting in selfjustice like in here would misuse it. Just to inform the whole lotof all internet users. The internet is monitored by all Sectret Services there are with a name in this world. Should be plenty and you talk crap about read admins. For 40 bucks a superb way of international reatime voice and videochat you can find. Start up for fre ,listen and erase if you do not like. If you worry about index.dat you should gogle but if you know what index.dat is paltalk is your minor worry for sure if you ever do a not quiet legal copy. Never heart so much crap in paltalk as I red in here in some 6 years. Godspeed Dave
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re: version 9 paltalk
paltalk 9 is the worst upgrade they have come up with, it keeps crashing and my pc comes up with errors all the time, you have to keep re-booting your pc, and lots of other people in the rooms are having the issues. so don’t bother getting versoon 9 it will give you lots of probelms as well. the paltalk team have ruined paltalk with this so-called upgrade.
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paltalk is for money and it is a bad app
go yahoo for voice
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I am looking for some procedure/ help /methodology to enter paltalk rooms in invisible or ghost mode. Anybody know how to ? Help will be highly appreciated
thanks
Nysa
I am looking for some procedure/ help /methodology to enter paltalk rooms in invisible or ghost mode. Anybody know how to ? Help will be highly appreciated
Thanks
Nysa
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