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I see a bigger problem of why would I want to chat with anyone just because they visited the same site? Strong communities probably already have a mechanism for that. If I want to talk to HNers I got to the IRC channel.
What's the IRC channel? I suppose this does show one flaw, if it isn't immediately obvious how to access a point of contact.
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Chat is NOT dead. See campfire for example which even is a quite new chat tool. In fact, entire companies (including my own) are using chat for all their internal communication and were doing this for years. Maybe the anonym chatroom for teenager in the 90s is dead, but that is for good reason. The Chat as a tool itself is still really powerful and effective. (and widely used) The implementation of rabblr also is rea…
If you run a business, skype If you run a team, campfire If you're whiz kid running a team, hipchat If you work, gchat If you're a kid, facebook If you're old, yahoo If you're a nitwit, twitter
Why?
For example, when this was on the front-page and i tested it out there were a little over 30 users on chatting, today its moved down to item 64 in the list and no one is using it. So it would definitely need to be promoted by the site for it to become popular.
I just had another thought, the developer of this bookmarklet could do a website that provides a list of web sites with the ability for user submissions and provide a sort of jump list. Hopefully there should be a way for the app to report the # of active users for each site in this scenario.
Anyways, I like it.