Mashable - The Social Media Guide - Latest Comments in Gabbly Isn’t As Bad as 3Bubbles

Re: Gabbly Isn’t As Bad as 3Bubbles

krisara_ — Tue, 01 May 2007 09:17:45 -0000

how will i do that?pls help..thanks!

Re: Gabbly Isn’t As Bad as 3Bubbles

chelsea — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:47:45 -0000

gay

Re: Gabbly Isn’t As Bad as 3Bubbles

Naveen Garg — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:43:15 -0000

You guys all miss the point and billiance of this idea.
Large websites have their own chatrooms, but you if you find an interesting comment, you can't go to other sites they've commented on so easily. I've been posting on blogs for a while now, and I can't even find my own comments unless i remember to e-mail them to myself...
I'm using chatsum, and will leave a copy of my note on the chatsum page for this blog.

Re: Gabbly Isn’t As Bad as 3Bubbles

Frits — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 07:13:31 -0000

Cool, looks a bit like e-Messenger, but only local chats are allowed i See....

Re: Gabbly Isn’t As Bad as 3Bubbles

Pete Cashmore — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 20:49:39 -0000

Hi Clay,

Hmm...well the version I used was on a gabbly domain, but there's also an embedded version (ie. cut and paste some code). I expect it's auto-load, but I'm sure it wouldn't take much tweaking to change that. 3Bubbles has a pop-up window that appears when you hit a "live chat" link, so that's always an option.

Re: Gabbly Isn’t As Bad as 3Bubbles

Clay Cook — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 03:09:48 -0000

Does it auto load over your webpage each time? Or are you able to action it to load up?

If it is auto loaded, it takes up far too much real estate for people who have not opted in for it.

We are considering chat for our site, but have not made any decisions as yet.

Re: Gabbly Isn’t As Bad as 3Bubbles

Charles — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 03:41:01 -0000

I reckon Gabbly is pretty cool. It is definitely not that useful for most blogs, although for well trafficked sites like Boing Boing or Digg I can see it working pretty well.

I don't thinking blogs are necessarily the killer use case for these types of app. I'm thinking about SXSW sessions, all with their own webpage...bingo an instant backchannel. The interesting thing that it is does is create some proximity amongst otherwise anonymous visitors. I can imagine all sorts of instances when this would be useful. What about Gabbly on Wikipedia? [must try]

The point about the long term value of the [user] generated content from these apps is valid though. Hmmm. With the availability of RSS feeds it might be solvable.

Re: Gabbly Isn’t As Bad as 3Bubbles

Pete Cashmore — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:51:19 -0000

Josh,

Yep, I'm aware of Wizlite - it's from the same coder and designer as Blummy. A neat little tool.

Re: Gabbly Isn’t As Bad as 3Bubbles

Josh — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:48:46 -0000

In Ajaxian's post about Gabbly, they linked to a site called WizLite that does collaborative page highlighting... which seems must more useful. Add in Chatsum's ability to leave notes for future visitors, and that could be a great tool for people who are doing collaborative research on the Internet (such as in a classroom setting).

http://wizlite.com/

Re: Gabbly Isn’t As Bad as 3Bubbles

Pete Cashmore — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 07:07:39 -0000

anonymous,

Yep. See also: Chatsum.

Re: Gabbly Isn’t As Bad as 3Bubbles

anonymous — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 07:05:40 -0000

Here is similar application.
http://www.yakalike.com/

Firefox plugin, it sits in the bottom conrner of the browser, and can be launched at any site.

Re: Gabbly Isn’t As Bad as 3Bubbles

Dima — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 03:08:58 -0000

The only difference is that Gabbly is free meanwhile :)
By the way, they have an embed option now.

Re: Gabbly Isn’t As Bad as 3Bubbles

Josh — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:47:58 -0000

Chris, definitely. You also might be interested in checking out industry leaders in this area like BoldChat, LivePerson, and Kayako (which makes liberal use of AJAX these days) to see what sort of thing they offer. In terms of CRM their backend offers a lot to business owners.

Re: Gabbly Isn’t As Bad as 3Bubbles

Pete Cashmore — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 22:37:11 -0000

Chris,

Add some ajax and you'll be good to go! :)

Re: Gabbly Isn’t As Bad as 3Bubbles

Chris Matthieu — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 22:30:08 -0000

MayWeHelp.com may have been ahead of its time.

MayWeHelp, inc. is a browser-based, one-to-one chat technology company that was founded by Chris Matthieu back in 1999. It can be embedded into any web page or blog post and it offers all of the features of the big CRM companies like: presence, chat waiting, browser redirects, automated FAQ responses, knowledge base, reporting, etc.

Perhaps we should update the look of the site and reintroduce it as a Web 2.0? What do you think Pete?

Re: Gabbly Isn’t As Bad as 3Bubbles

Pete Cashmore — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:16:53 -0000

Paul,

Suckiness is in the eye of the beholder.

Re: Gabbly Isn’t As Bad as 3Bubbles

Paul Montgomery — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:15:02 -0000

I fail to see how it sucks less that 3Bubbles in any meaningful way.

Re: Gabbly Isn’t As Bad as 3Bubbles

Pete Cashmore — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:09:13 -0000

Josh,

Agreed!

Re: Gabbly Isn’t As Bad as 3Bubbles

Josh — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:52:45 -0000

To repost what I said over at Ajaxian, I can not see how this service could possibly be anything more than a novelty. I've never been at a website before and though, â€œGee, I wish I could chat with other people browsing this website right nowâ€¦ about this website.â€ â€¦ Most large websites (the only ones where youâ€™d be likely to find more than one person browsing through this thing) that have ANY reason for chat or forums, already have chat or forums. Other than that, if I want to talk to people, Iâ€™ll go to the sites already designated for that. The only way this works is if site owners embrace it and link to their Gabbly URL. But as a site owner, if you want to offer chat to your users for any any reason (support, general interaction, etc.) there are a number of other solutions tailored specifically to whatever use you are after... and it would make much more sense, in my opinion, to go with one of those rather than a gimmicky thing like Gabbly.