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ChatCreator.com: Instant web-based chatrooms
Web-based chatrooms predate Ajax, Flash, and Java by far, but though it's been done a million times, it's rarely done well. ChatCreator.com is of the Ajax variety, and even better the zero-registration variety. To join a chatroom, you just enter your name and the name of a chatroom. If it doesn't already exist, it'll be created and given a URL like chatcreator.com/chatap/rooms/downloadsquad/ that you can send to your friends. The chatrooms are fairly bare-bones and lack moderation features, but they do have limited HTML-style text formatting, as well as IRC-style /me actions and automatic URL linking. The site's design isn't fantastic, but is decent enough, and chat feels quick and responsive. I'm afraid that hte lack of moderation and name-registration features will cause difficulties for anyone trying to run a chatroom of any size, but for setting up quick chats ChatCreator.com a nice service.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Andrew said 11:56AM on 6-09-2006
http://gabbly.com is pretty much the same thing, but with all the bells and whistles you are after. And you can embed it directly on your page.
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Alex Land said 10:52PM on 6-09-2006
Gabbly is awesome. I remember using it whilst Joystiq was liveblogging the MS keynote at E3 to discuss with everyone else that was refreshing the page 4 times a second.
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Neal Saferstein said 10:53PM on 6-10-2006
This is really great!
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Neal Saferstein
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Chat MagcPinture said 7:29PM on 7-23-2006
ola como estan todos
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