Comments on: 3Bubbles to add Real Time Chat to Blogs

By: butlimous

butlimous — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:16:49 +0000

Very nice system. I was waiting for this thing and it is finally available!

By: ray ray

ray ray — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 14:11:56 +0000

what it do

By: Tecwriter

Tecwriter — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:39:59 +0000

For obvious reasons adding a chat to your blog or website is something that needs to be thought through. However, having worked as a journalist and editor since 1991 and webpublising since 1998, I´m sure of one thing: Using a chat-plugin on your blog to make the experience of reading your blog richer, plus having your readers hook up and become richer by network – I´m really struggeling to see how a chat-plugin can be a bad thing. If used the proper way.

Now some of you I´m sure will not agree, but for me the only way of using a chat-plugin would be to offer this to members-only and thereby control spamming and “stupid” users.

By: Paul -V-

Paul -V- — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:24:37 +0000

I don’t know if this is such a good idea.

Instant chats give lots of opportunity to trolls and content spammers.

IMHO instant chats are are not conductive to thoughtful conversation.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 15:03:45 +0000

Hey Darren,

All the above, not to mention different time zones, your yesterday is my today…(or is that your tomorrow?)
I don’t see how it could work except for people in the same TZ.

Joe

By: mark

mark — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 04:27:51 +0000

This is quite interesting. They should make it so that it saves a history of whatever people say, and close the chat after some time. Any future comments can be made like regular comments.

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 02:20:39 +0000

It will also empower the trolls. With comments you can manage them and the process to a degree, but on a site that tempers get frayed rather easily, you would be assaulted without the protection of moderation and live chat that is accesible from the masses.

By: Easton Ellsworth

Easton Ellsworth — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 02:14:18 +0000

Certainly there are valid concerns about this type of dynamic chat feature – but it’s still amazing to me that we’re watching things like this become possible where a year or two ago they might have been pipe dreams.

I look forward to giving 3bubbles a shot!

By: Kingsley Tagbo

Kingsley Tagbo — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 01:55:22 +0000

Another problem is that a comment driven blog will require moderation and owner part!

This means that the owner of the blog will spend more time participating in the chat or moderating the chat versus working on the blog.

The dynamics of a chart is different from the dynamics of a blog and I fear that this tool will ultimately detract from the usefulness of a blog.

By: John H

John H — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 01:12:40 +0000

This also bring a whole list of new issues, for example, moderation, flameing, dealing with childern under 13 (COPA), and much more. I’m not sure this will run successfully. If heavy traffic is hitting the chat session, I’m not sure the server can take it since this is not a thick client chat application but just a AJAX running server code.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 00:46:51 +0000

I’m making my ” reservations ” with you.

I’m more inclined to want comments that are permanent, have value, add links and add depth to the conversation I statred with my post.

The fact that a lot of great comments come days after the initial post is even more reason to think this isn’t for me.