Online chat room applications, chatroom development, even free and open source chat room software.
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
Martin Kool of Q42 let us know that his company decided to open source the Q42 multiplayer engine which is “a lightweight, generic multi-user solution, allowing developers to create their own browser-based application or game over port 80.” The engine is written in C# on the backend, and of course, JavaScript on the front end. Read the rest…
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
Category: Chat, Component
, JavaScript
, Prototype
Todd Fisher has created Chat Infection, a simple chat widget that sits on top of Prototype. You can see Todd’s work via core.js, which is worth looking at to see the Event.onDOMReady(..) and the like. Here is a new room:
Thursday, April 26th, 2007
Radius IM is a mashup of Google Maps (location) with IM (teh social). It’s the only site that shows you where your friends are hanging out and lets you surf for other people based on location. It supports all the major networks: MSN, AIM/ICQ, Yahoo, and GTalk/Jabber. And you can use radiusIM from anywhere because Read the rest…
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Category: Chat, Editorial
, Offline
, Screencast
The arguments around offline have been brewing for some time. DHH came out with typical flare on why offline doesn’t matter as you are either online all the time, or if you aren’t, you don’t mind it. I hope that offline matters less and less over time, but for me connectivity can be very spotty Read the rest…
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
Process One has announced a new IM client called OneTeam. The client is XUL based, so requires Firefox 2 or can be run as a stand-alone XULRunner: OneTeam handles presence, one-to-one chat, file tranfert, user business card and group-chat in realtime. Based on the XMPP protocol, it enables both secure and private chat inside the Read the rest…
Monday, December 18th, 2006
Category: Chat, Comet
, Prototype
, Showcase
Chris Chabot has recently announced a new chat prototype based on a comet iframe connections for real time messaging, ajax for posting messages and sending commands, prototype.js and script.aculo.us as javascript framework, and bases of the newly written dhtml components. As a side effect of this project, the library & socket daemon framework used by Read the rest…
Monday, November 6th, 2006
Meebo made a huge splash when it came onto the scene. It was an example of a real world app inside the browser, in this case chat. From that we started to see chat everywhere :) It also had the side benefit to proof that people would trust their passwords into a meta service like Read the rest…
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
MontRed has created Your Corner as a way to get their users to communicate with them. It is a simple Ajax chat widget that allows people to leave notes. It is implemented with the JSOLait library and you can place with a demo box.
Pyro is an example of an application that blurs the lines between a rich application and an ajax application. Pyro embeds WebKit on OS X (which is very easy to do, enabling these applications nicely) to offer a rich experience on top of 37 Signals Campfire chat application. Why would you want to do this? Read the rest…
Thursday, March 16th, 2006
We aren’t done in the IM race :) Jive Software has released Wildfire Server an open XMPP (Jabber) based IM solution: Wildfire is an enterprise instant messaging (EIM) server dual-licensed under the Open Source GPL and commercially. It uses the only widely adopted open protocol for instant messaging, XMPP (also called Jabber). Wildfire is incredibly Read the rest…
Sunday, March 12th, 2006
Gabbly (via Digg) is a new application that embeds a chat window in any web page. It seems to be based on web proxying and iframes: You think you’re looking at the target website, e.g. digg.com, but you’re actually looking at gabbly.com with an iframe for digg.com and an iframe above that for the chat Read the rest…
Friday, February 3rd, 2006
Category: Chat, Prototype
, Ruby
37Signals is load testing their new chat application, Campfire. Run over there to take a look and try to bring their servers down. =) Would you use this over standard instant messaging or the other chat apps out there? Campfire certainly looks like the most user friendly chat app for those clients who aren’t technically Read the rest…
Wednesday, January 18th, 2006
Martin Scheffler has released his second version of Realtime on Rails (we posted on version 1.0). Realtime on Rails is a RoR app using Ajax HTTP streaming to update browsers from the server. It includes: A ruby HTTPD for mediating the push connections A JS Window system and two demo apps: Chat/IM with rich text Read the rest…
Thursday, December 29th, 2005
Category: Chat
AJChat is one of the latest ajaxian chat systems to come along. It offers a few differences, such as promoting the chat service rather than the just the chat client. This means that you can be in any chat room, and click “Options” and “Share Chat” to get the code that you can embed in Read the rest…
Tuesday, December 13th, 2005
Category: Chat
TechCrunch has brought up Meebo’s Impressive Growth. Meebo is the top Ajax client, and is a fantastic example of what you can do with Ajax. It looks nice, acts responsive, etc. There is a reason that it gets mentioned in all of the lists of quality Ajax applications. I think an interesting debate could be Read the rest…
Thursday, November 10th, 2005
Category: Chat
Martin Scheffler posted this morning on the Ruby on Rails list about a new realtime chat application called Realtime on Rails. If you are using a Mozilla based browser, it will keep open a HTTP connection and push the chat data as JSON. In other browsers the server is polled every five seconds or when Read the rest…
In Episode 25, we chat about IE 8, standards, Acid3, server side JavaScript, and more.
