Create a disposable chat room with ChatMaker
There's no registration required. In fact, there's not even an option to create an account, which means that when you login to a chat room you'll have an unwieldy name like Guest 1817. But you can easily change your name using the IRC-like /nick command. You can also designate actions by typing /me, but that's about it for the IRC commands.
ChatMaker also supports some basic HTML commands like <a> for providing a hyperlink, <i> for italics, and <strong> for bold. While ChatMaker probably isn't going to win any awards for its interface, the service could be the easiest we've ever seen for setting up a multi-user chatroom.
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsjoeyJan 31st 2008 10:45AM
Yo we got to chat homies. Im out.
Big JohnJan 21st 2008 8:21PM
I'm not seeing anything to make a room... just a login page.
Brad LinderJan 21st 2008 8:24PM
Sorry about that, I had a typo in the URL. It should point to chatmaker.net, not chatmaker.com.
Big JohnJan 21st 2008 8:38PM
No problems, thanks for the fix! Didn't notice the difference myself :-P
Big JohnJan 21st 2008 11:41PM
Just tried this. I'm a member of some forums that are politically active, so we decided to give it a spin to talk about tonight's Democratic primaries live. After about 10 users it got really sluggish. Good for small groups, bad for medium or large groups.
Chris Brogan...Jan 21st 2008 11:54PM
I dragged about 60 or so people into a room from Twitter, and it performed admirably. We couldn't get it to crash under that number o' folks. Lots of good response from people.
One suggestion for usability: make it *really* explicit how one changes their username/nickname. I got it right off, but lots of folks balked at that early on, so we spent lots of cycles telling newcomers what to do.
Otherwise, nifty, easy, and cool.
masaJan 22nd 2008 8:55AM
Thanks for this application, it' s interesting ;)