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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 thorax »

Chatterous has become essential for us really. Feels almost like a "utility" at this point. Keep up the great work, guys.

We've been playing with the API-- at the moment we're using it to send SVN commit notices and production code releases to our team. Seems cool so far.

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

#6

Post by mrtron »

thorax wrote: post #3

Chatterous has become essential for us really. Feels almost like a "utility" at this point. Keep up the great work, guys. We've been playing with the API-- at the moment we're using it to send SVN commit notices and production code releases to our team. Seems cool so far.

I don't know why we hadn't done this yet - but I am now sending svn commit notices, website errors, and all of our other msgs to a Chatterous group.

It took 5 minutes, and is super handy.

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

#7

Post by dtap »

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.

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

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Post by martian »

If you want to have the HN chatroom always at your side when browsing HN... go grab the GreaseMonkey HN toolkit, then copy paste this code at the end of the file, but inside the last IF clause. No warranties expressed or implied. :-)

  var center = document.getElementsByTagName('center')[0];
  var tbl = document.getElementsByTagName('table')[0];
  tbl.setAttribute('width','100%');
  var chat = "";
  center.innerHTML = "" + center.innerHTML 
  + "" + chat + "";
(edited for formatting)

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

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Post by rantfoil »

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.

Yikes, Meebo Rooms is a UX disaster though. I tried using it on our 'maintenance page' once when we were upgrading our servers, and it was a visual design abortion.

Definitely psyched about using Chatterous in the future.

Also, Campfire, watch out.

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