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ChatCreator - Ajax webchat goodness
by Jason Clarke Nov 6th 2006
If you've got a website that has developed any sort of following at all, particularly for a very focused topic, you've probably considered adding a chat room to your site. Unfortunately, it can be a pain in the butt to find one that works well, and is easy to install. Back in June, Jordan posted about a newcomer called ChatCreator, which allowed users to create on-the-fly chat rooms. The implementation is somewhat bare-bones, so there's no moderation or name registration features, which contribute to the low friction feeling of the chat room creation process, but could lead to problems for chat room users.
Since then, ChatCreator has added a new chatbox creator, which will allow you to embed a ChatCreator-powered chatbox right in your own website. And just like the original service, the chatbox service is low in friction, high in results. You simply edit a few option (if you choose) to make the chatbox match the size and appearance of your site more closely, and the site spits out a very small chunk of code that can be pasted in your site's markup to embed the chatbox.
ChatCreator chats still suffer from the lack of management features that were voiced as concerns in our first post about them, but there's really no easier way to add a responsive and fun to use chat box to your website.
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, ...
