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Re: 3Bubbles – Why I’m Skeptical About Live Chat on Blogs

TomNJ — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:23:30 -0000

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.

Re: 3Bubbles – Why I’m Skeptical About Live Chat on Blogs

Hillary Fuger — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:27:50 -0000

Good story. Impressive. Good site !

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Beavis — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:40:04 -0000

I like 4Bubbles...

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Vaibhav Domkundwar - iNods.com — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 03:51:53 -0000

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.

Re: 3Bubbles – Why I’m Skeptical About Live Chat on Blogs

Sanjay — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 01:26:31 -0000

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?

Re: 3Bubbles – Why I’m Skeptical About Live Chat on Blogs

Dan Grossman — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 18:12:33 -0000

By the way, I like the new design.

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Dan Grossman — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 18:12:04 -0000

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.

Re: 3Bubbles – Why I’m Skeptical About Live Chat on Blogs

David Kaspar — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:32:31 -0000

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?

Re: 3Bubbles – Why I’m Skeptical About Live Chat on Blogs

Pete Cashmore — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 15:35:23 -0000

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.

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pedrobeltrao — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:52:26 -0000

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.

Re: 3Bubbles – Why I’m Skeptical About Live Chat on Blogs

fred krueger — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:03:53 -0000

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.

Re: 3Bubbles – Why I’m Skeptical About Live Chat on Blogs

Brian Breslin — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 13:16:55 -0000

ummm, what about chatsum?

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Pete Cashmore — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 11:04:34 -0000

Stephanie,

Exactly. The asynchronous nature of comments is one of the reasons they work so well.

Re: 3Bubbles – Why I’m Skeptical About Live Chat on Blogs

Stephanie Booth — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 10:49:30 -0000

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.