TinyChat - Disposable Chatrooms for the Twitter Generation
Even though we live in an age of instant Qik streams, video chats on Skype, and micro-blogging on Twitter, sometimes all you need is a simple chatroom for real-time text chats. TinyChat solves this problem by creating simple, disposable chatrooms. Tinychats works exactly as advertised. It's a disposable, no-frills chatroom, with a deliberately limited feature set. There are no accounts to sign up for and whenever you open up a new room, TinyChat will simply create a new URL for you.
While you don't have to create an account on TinyChat, you can (and will!) alert your Twitter followers when you open a new chatroom and sign in with your Twitter login. It is important to note that you can't turn this message off - if you sign in with your Twitter account, that message will go out to all of your followers!
Besides the basic chat function, TinyChat also features the ability to add a badge with your chatroom status to your blog or social networking profile. You can also save a copy of your chat log by saving it as a text file, or by forwarding it to your email account.
Hidden Features: Choose Your Own URL and Private Chat
If you don't want to use TinyChat's cryptic names for your chatroom, you can also choose your own by just appending it to the TinyChat URL. If you want to send a private message, just click on the person's name and your message will be invisible to the rest of the room.
The chatroom concept does feel a bit retro, and it would be nice if you could receive some kind of audio or visual notification whenever a new message was posted to your room, but overall, the service just does what it say it does, and it does it well.
iPhone and Flash Coming Soon
Dan Blake, TinyChat's developer, tell us that they are also currently working on a simple iPhone app and a flash widget. If you like TinyChat, you should also check out TinyPaste (short URLs for long quotes) and iOJ (file uploading and sharing app) from the same developers.
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I like this kind of simple chatroom,I hate too much picture,video,complex..I even can't find where is the "send" button.
Simple, elegant, short and sweet. The way life should be.
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Since i use twitter, the world is a liddle bit more tolerable ;)
Its a program which is reduce to the minimum of actuators.
Nice!
very light, I like it a lot than normal chatbox. now how about implementing an embed code for the whole chatbox :D.
Pretty wild.. Naming the chat is interesting.. Ones I would think of are basic.. You'd meet some interesting people along the way if you go that route, for sure..
Off to recommend it to some friends whom I was just witnessed yet again not be able to use the usual chat alternatives because they are too heavy on the resource need.. Thanks for changing that, TinyChat.. :D
Helloo Every Body
Based on TinyChat I created a PHP script that people can download to a server and create a personal tiny chat install.
It's Chat Software.
Thanks
ive just broken up with my boyfriend . dont feel brilliant . is anyone else abit fed up .
l also like this chat room . there is no messing about with endless signing up questions . its easy and quick . im happy to have found it .
hai everyone
That's neat, but I also like http://batchchat.blogspot.com . It's a freeware chat room you can download. It is a single file. All you do is drop it in a shared folder at work and presto, you can chat with your co workers. I use it to talk to a two friends in another building. No need to set anything up, and the system administrator has not caught us yet, or he doesn't care. Hehehe.
I don't know if I would trust that. I have been using http://officechatroom.blogspot.com/ at work for a while now and it suffices. I may be tempted to try this.
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Great article regarding this chatroom also known as TinyChat. For sure, many people will become interested about this. There’s no doubt that technologies are now playing an important role in our society. Many people are now enjoying its benefits. As of now, social networking sites including Twitter are very prominent. Twitter has been utilized by personalities such as Ashton Kutcher and wife Demi Moore, the director Kevin Smith, singer Lily Allen, and LaVar Burton, the actor known for his role on Star Trek as Geordie the engineer, as well as host of the Reading Rainbow and his role in Alex Haley's Roots. Users post updates, whatever they want to say, questions and answers, in 140 word clips called Tweets. Membership is free, so you don't have to get installment loans to get onto Twitter. Read more at http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2009/04/27/installment-loans-twitter-break-fourth-wall-part-1/
Very good
Thanks for it. Ok, it is old, but for me very nice.