Chatsum is a new service that allows you to chat about the current webpage you are viewing.
Currently in private beta, the service looks great and provides an interactive way to talk with others about what they are browsing.
The service allows you chat with other people on the current website or just on a specific page. Each chat seems to stay with the page so you can see what others have said in the past.
This is quite like Wikalong except wikalong is a wiki and this is for chatting.
Chatsum still needs a couple things.
• The chat window needs to be scrollable so I can see the history.
• Any url’s chatted into the chat window need to be clickable.
• Changing tabs forces a complete reload of the whole chat history to scroll.
• I should be able to ‘LOCK’ the chat on a specific site even if I navigate across tabs.
• Ignoring of specific users (i.e. spammers, people in foreign languages).
• Ability to view a list of people in the current chat (and perhaps profiles).
• Emoticons.
I’m sure people will have privacy issues around this considering their service will know pages you are visiting if your sidebar is open. Though selectively opening the sidebar when you want to chat would alleviate that.
Go sign up for the beta today.
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Another one in development without the same polish is Yakalike.
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Maybe the web site owners of today are more mellow than the ones in the late 90’s, but I think these kind of companies might run into some oppositions given what happened to ThirdVoice:
http://www.newstrolls.com/news/dev/downes/column060299.htm
In a way isn’t it also unfair to people that work hard to create a web site just to have someone saying bad thing about the site and have it appear on the same page?