December 20th, 2005
“AJChat” Ajax-Based Chat Service for Blogs
By Alice Hill
RealTechNews
Not sure how this will work with WordPress until I hit “publish”, but there’s a new Ajax-based chat client you can paste right into your blog. It’s called AJChat and to add a chat to your blog, click on “Options” and pick “Share Chat” from the “Tools” section. Paste the code in your blog and voila - instant 2-way communication.
Correction: I read that this was a Google app but further investigation showed no such connection. But we have been having fun chatting here and it’s a great tool. Give it a try. –Alice
UPDATE #2: I had to kill the chat box. Although people found it fun, AJChat made a code change last night that forced a login box every time you came to this page - which was beyond annoying. So, to see the product for yourself, please visit their site and try it out. It was fun while it lasted but the forced login was a no-go in my book. –Alice
Kevin K. says:
Hmmmmm, since you included the ajchat, refreshing your main page has been very slow…. I noticed it around the time you originally posted it and I had trouble loading realtechnews.com. I finally got back to checking what’s new and it took some time to load. When I hit the refresh button (Firefox 1.07) it takes about 8-10 seconds to complete….
FYI.
Kevin
December 20th, 2005 at 3:34 pm
Christian Calzadillas says:
Is this really a Google product? Why isn’t there any Google branding on it? Why is the domain name registered to someone in Singapore?
December 20th, 2005 at 5:16 pm
Alice says:
That’s what I wondered and nothing showed it was a Google app so I posted a correction. Weird.
December 20th, 2005 at 5:22 pm
CJK says:
Not sure a live chat client was the best idea for the main post. I now have a nagging login window… ;o)
mayhap a screen cap and a link?
December 21st, 2005 at 8:51 am
Alice says:
Thanks CJK - I killed the chat window when I saw the login box. Weird becasue it was not doing that yesterday. Sorry for the hassle.
December 21st, 2005 at 9:20 am
CJK says:
No worries - but I had the window open over night, and it really confuzed it when they pushed the new code, and I still had it up with the old! I had to kill the browser window and start fresh before I got the login to quit nagging! ;o)
December 21st, 2005 at 9:20 pm
silverlokk says:
It’s on my blog, in my latest entry. Rather than risk the annoyance of a forced login, I forced the code into the second page. Looks cool, but I see my DSL router’s and hub’s LEDs flashing like crazy, and I don’t think I’m downloading anything. Seems to be in a constant poll. Also, it doesn’t seem to indicate entrances and exits. Someone who last sent a message almost 90 mins ago still seems to be in there. I’ll continue playing with this awhile.
December 23rd, 2005 at 10:25 am
Ming Han says:
The “forced login screen” was due to server maintenence… rather the hosting giving us problems by banning 2 of our scripts. So we had to block everyone for a moment while we figured things out.
December 23rd, 2005 at 11:29 am