DISQUS

Mashable - The Social Media Guide: 2006/02/12/3bubbles-why-im-skeptical-about-live-chat-on-blogs/

  • Stephanie Booth · 3 years ago
    Long, long ago, in a distant galaxy... Er, no. Back in early 99, ICQ came up with this bright idea: if you were surfing on a web page and you asked other ICQ users to join you there, you could chat about the page, and see if other ICQ users you didn't know were also on the page. Remind you of anything?

    I tried it, for about 20 minutes... but it was really hard to find a page which was already being visited by somebody!

    I think you're right: comments about a web page work because they're asynchronous -- chat is much more difficult, and will happen less often.
  • Pete Cashmore · 3 years ago
    Stephanie,

    Exactly. The asynchronous nature of comments is one of the reasons they work so well.
  • Brian Breslin · 3 years ago
    ummm, what about chatsum?
  • fred krueger · 3 years ago
    Async works ok -- but not for dating. Thats why people upgrade to the "premium" accounts on dating sites.

    Ultimately you need a chat download -- so you can interupr the person at any time. If I could chat to other users ineterested in techcrunch -- I think I would do it -- assuming they are up for it.
  • Pedro Beltrao · 3 years ago
    what about for the ability to chat with the blog owner. A lot of bloggers spend a considerable time online. Sometimes it would be more interesting to chat with the blogger instead of just posting a comment and coming back some time later for the answer.
  • Pete Cashmore · 3 years ago
    Pedro,

    Well, maybe, but we already have shoutboxes for that, and they haven't really taken off. What's more, you can easily display your AIM presence (or links to launch an IM client) on your blog.
  • David Kaspar · 3 years ago
    Maybe it's just me but it reminds me of the new Google talk and Gmail integration.

    Is it a coincidence that two AJAX based chat services launch at the same time?
  • Dan Grossman · 3 years ago
    What if 3bubbles lets site owners tag their sites, and then lets people chatting on similarly tagged sites see each other?

    Could be a way for sites with small traffic (but relevent content) to participate.
  • Dan Grossman · 3 years ago
    By the way, I like the new design.
  • Sanjay · 3 years ago
    I agree, sometimes you can technological wizardy too far. There are things where live voice doesn't belong - blogs is obviously one such place. To me it seems that the reason vlogs are not popular has nothing to do with the ease or lack thereof. It's just that sometime a few words can say a lot more than a video can.


    By the way, can you send me an invitation to CoComment?
  • Vaibhav Domkundwar - iNods.com · 3 years ago
    I totally agree with you. I tested it on Mike's blog yesterday and the chat room had nothing interetsing to read/chat/ask/agree about for the 10 mins I stayed around. Whats worse is that half of the time I saw messages with people asking "Is here?" and so on.

    I don't see how this can work. But then, I have been wrong more than once. So I am a non-believer too, but will keep a watch on how they do.
  • Beavis · 2 years ago
    I like 4Bubbles...
  • Hillary Fuger · 2 years ago
    Good story. Impressive. Good site !
  • TomNJ · 8 months ago
    Why not just add live chat software like http://www.livechatagent.com not sure why we would need software just for blogs when 100's of chat software already in the market.