Tag: SHOUTBOX

I have always wanted to see shoutboxes make their way farther across the internets. Hopefully YShout, and other systems like it, can help blaze the trail. YShout is a slim, powerful and standards-compliant shoutbox built on PHP and AJAX. Stylable through the beauty of CSS, installation and customization sound like a breeze. The feature list is also pretty extensive, though only the big new ...

Back in the early days of blogging, setting up a shoutbox--that is, a constantly-scrolling sidebar where visitors can leave comments and chat in real time--was a serious commitment, and most people who had them rolled their own in whatever language was handy. That, of course, was before WordPress and before AJAX. Now if you want a shoutbox on your WordPress blog, it's as easy as installing the ...

In the past few months I've seen no fewer than four services that let you chat in real time with people visiting the same web site as you. Most of them, I'm sorry to say, suck. Either they have crappy interfaces, require every user to install an extension or other software, or just don't work very well. Gabbly is a breath of fresh air. For starters, it requires zero setup--just put the address of ...