I don't believe a chat room is what's next.
The Man Who Made Gmail Says Real-Time Conversation is What's Next
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Re: The Man Who Made Gmail Says Real-Time Conversation is What's Next
#32The idea of real time communication is similar to IRC, but remember that it's just a protocol. The big difference here is what you can do with how that data is presented to users. There are some really neat things you can do with HTTP and a browser that IRC clients lack. The whole rendering a page with text, images, and markup together adds a lot to the experience that you just don't get with IRC. Great job friendfee…
Look at Adium (which is IM, but I don't think IRC) and Colloquy (IRC and SILC) on OSX. They output chat to XML which is then 'themed' with XSLT into HTML to display in a Webkit frame.
It sounds really convoluted, but it's presented in HTML form. and you can use images etc.
Re: The Man Who Made Gmail Says Real-Time Conversation is What's Next
#33So when will Google officially make this their social network?
He doesn't work at Google any more.
Re: The Man Who Made Gmail Says Real-Time Conversation is What's Next
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you like IRC, you will like Chatterous. It is like IRC where you can get msgs by SMS/IM/email/etc
> It is like IRC where you can get msgs by SMS/IM/email/etc So in other words it's not like IRC at all.
No, IRC is fundamentally about the channel structure.
Additionally people have used an assortment of clients to receive messages including local apps, web based, etc.
It isn't about how you receive the message, its the structure of how people are organized to chat.
Re: The Man Who Made Gmail Says Real-Time Conversation is What's Next
#35The Man Who Made the Postcard Says "Telephonic Conversation" is What's Next
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#36I still think the Friendfeed site does a poor job of getting across what it does and why it's useful. This readwriteweb article is better. They need some real-life examples, not just waffle about family and work groups. Can I use it instead of a blog, or is it as well as? If I can see the comments other friends are making elsewhere then do my comments on FF get pushed out to those things I'm on, e.g. twitter? That kind of thing needs to be covered, and without me watching a video or screencast.