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Chatterous (YC W08) launches im/email/sms group API and widgets.

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Re: Chatterous (YC W08) launches im/email/sms group API and widgets.

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Post by sam_in_nyc »

jlees wrote: post #5

Chatterous looks cool enough. But I'm sorry, as soon as I clicked through and saw the default (Kubrick) Wordpress theme, I killed a kitten.

Chatterous is really cool. I don't mind the blog layout, form follows function. What I do much mind is lack of a link to chatterous.com from the blog. So annoying.

Re: Chatterous (YC W08) launches im/email/sms group API and widgets.

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Post by ErrantX »

dtap wrote: post #7

The value of public embeddable chats, at least to me, is the ability to participate without having to sign in for anything. Meebome works extremely well for this. A possible application to look into is integration with BlackBerry Messenger. It is very powerful and would seem more appropriate for a chat session than over SMS. Good luck.

The real use of chatterous though, for me, is the private or semi-private groups.

I use them on personal and work project groups now (via Gtalk.. when it works ;)) and it up productivity no end.

The way I see chatterous is like a modern, web based form of IRC. Very little else has come close to that before :)

Re: Chatterous (YC W08) launches im/email/sms group API and widgets.

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Post by dshah »

It might just be me, but it disappoints me a bit to see startups put blogs as a sub-domain of WordPress.com. (WordPress itself is great, but it's much better to use a sub-domain or sub-folder of the primary domain -- for controlling the SEO).

So, I'd advise: blog.chatterous.com or chatterous.com/blog

It's not that expensive to do (even if you want to host at WordPress.com). Should be standard practice for all YC startups.

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