Chatroulette + GeoIP + screengrabs = Chatroulette Map

#1

Post by joshwa » Thu, Mar 11, 2010, 3:43 AM UTC

Chatroulette + GeoIP + screengrabs = Chatroulette Map
chatroulettemap.com

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#2

Post by peregrine » Thu, Mar 11, 2010, 4:02 AM UTC

Doesn't this defeat the purpose of anonymous chat?

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#3

Post by noonespecial » Thu, Mar 11, 2010, 4:04 AM UTC

Just when I thought Chatroulette couldn't possibly get any creepier. Well done indeed!

How about laying a few of the details of this mashup's creation on us. Did you automate the "next" somehow to get lots of screengrabs with minimal work?

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Post by ten7 » Thu, Mar 11, 2010, 4:08 AM UTC

Finally, a constructive use of Geo Location!

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Post by angusgr » Thu, Mar 11, 2010, 4:13 AM UTC

Small bug report (assuming this is your mashup): clicking on the "zone" nodes in Chrome centres them but doesn't pop up the screengrabs.

Works in Firefox though. 10 clicks in, first penis sighting. Sigh.

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Post by dailo10 » Thu, Mar 11, 2010, 4:14 AM UTC

Does anyone else find this disturbing in a Big Brother sort of way?

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#7

Post by dzlobin » Thu, Mar 11, 2010, 4:14 AM UTC

...apparently there are 7 people chatting from Rosedale Cemetery in LA, on Normandie and W Washington.

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Post by paulgerhardt » Thu, Mar 11, 2010, 4:15 AM UTC

peregrine wrote: post #2

Doesn't this defeat the purpose of anonymous chat?

I think the point is that it's not that anonymous to begin with.

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Post by elblanco » Thu, Mar 11, 2010, 4:16 AM UTC

Interesting the very large number in the D.C., NYC and LA area, and the very low number in the Bay Area.

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Post by tel » Thu, Mar 11, 2010, 4:18 AM UTC

What a gross invasion of people's privacy as enabled by collecting information they already willingly submitted.

If chatroulette proper is an unwavering stare into the faces and bodies of the internet, chatroulette map is stripping one further layer of anonymity away. It's also terrifying to think what'll happen when this collides with registered sex offender counts.