Mailinator for chat: Talkinator!

[Darren Dirt]

The speed and simplicity and effortless of mailinator... now for impromptu chat! (or even ongoing conversations... private as long as you pick a creative name and don't share it with the rest of the world!)

http://www.talkinator.com/faq.jsp

Talkinator: it's 5% better than MSN! Kinda like how "11" is "1 more" than 10... (and for the devs out there, here's an explanation of the design, etc.)

Paul Tyma is brilliant. And he probably scares GatesBallmer.



PS: I created a "room" for Our Gang... it's there "forever", any time the mood hits you, although being two letters it might be used by others during peak hours...
http://www.talkinator.com/t8r.jsp?b=RW

[Mr. Analog]

Really keen DD.

Great find.

[Thorin]

When I first looked at what's behind the link, I thought it was a Java applet.  Then I read the "design, etc" link.  Then I tried again, and noticed that all the text in the chat app scales up and down when you Ctrl+Scroll, just like any other text on web pages.  Now that's cool!  I don't like Java-based chat apps because most are banged out in a few hours and don't support text resizing...

[Mr. Analog]

I wonder what it uses under the hood. I have renewed interest in JQuery lately

[Darren Dirt]

I wonder what it uses under the hood. I have renewed interest in JQuery lately

I just love that "Web 2.0" article I linked to above, how it mentions that mailinator was the "first" of its kind, but unlike all the clones that came out later THE FRICKIN THING STILL RUNS ON A SINGLE SERVER, i.e. it's practically cost-free for him to provide the service (and since the hosting service gets their ad, they charge him nothing, wow eh?)

but re. talkinator, yes it's truly Web 2.0, dynamic html and AJAX or similar, hence the text-resize makes sense since it's just text wrapped inside some DIVs, by the looks of it. and I think he did, in fact, bang it out in a few hours


btw I was serious when I said the "RW" room might be someplace for us to use, heck with it have a popup link on the forums and any time we are posting in the forums we might see some chatter going on; I really like the Web 2.0 article's suggestion, that a handful of related sites might all embed the same "room" and voila instant community discussions... I'm "Dirtman" right now, if anyone's bored