Chatango for Your Blog

Thanks to Dave for pointing out this interesting online chat tool that allows you to easily put a free chat tool into your blog.  It's call Chatango and I've implemented it in the lefthand column of mip's scan.  So if I'm online feel free to say hello.  I look forward to your questions. 

Comments

[mip]

I'd had a reader send me an email asking for a bit of a tutorial on Chatango. It's quite simple. Once you've registered yourself on their site (www.chatango.com) you will be given a small snippet of code that you can cute and paste onto your web site or blog. For Typepad users, I pasted this snippet of code into the note section of a new link typelist..

Then when any reader is on my blog they can type a live message. If I'm online I am alerted that a new chat message has come in and we can start a live chat via the chat tool on the site. If I should be offline, then I receive an email that some left me a message.

Hope that helps r00sters.
Ciao,
mip

[bub]

I found that little tidbit at Gary's blog(http://blog.teledyn.com/node/2100)

[mrG]

So May says, "You have Michael's phone number?" and I sez, "Uh, I think so ..." and start ruffling through the sea of my desk for the business card.

Business cards are like, so useless.

Trash that idea, I say, wait, he's got a website! and I cruise in and while it's loading I remember, "Hey ... he's just installed that Chatango thing ..."

Page loads. Last seen 13 hours ago -- which is exactly what I found using Chatango, because you have to be there it doesn't really fit as a means to make contact; great perhaps for a pre-arranged chat, but if that's the case, there's other ways and means that don't require a dinky web-interface.

"What's his last name?" Ah, er, ah ... mip? No, wait, I know it, it starts with Iann... ok so how many of those could there be in Sauble? May gets the book out, I keep looking on the website but figured I just had to pop in and relate this real-world story into this thread. "Oh," says May, "I'm looking at an old phone book!"

I'm half way through typing this, much amused by it all, and May says, current book in hand, "Ah, found it!" and she's already leaving you a voice mail ... or maybe she's talking to you, I don't know because she also wasn't tied to this desk by the communications, she heard it ring and wandered off with the wireless handset to where she'd be more comfortable.

There's a tutorial of a lesson in all of this, but be danged if I can remember what it was.

[Bub]

I actually remember back in 94, using Gopher ( anyone remember that?) and finding some online stores, and popping by to peruse their wares.Then unix pop up( not the same as a windows) came up and it was the store owner who always kept his computer running and greeted customers or wannabe customers.It was a place in key west and I was looking for sandals, and he said not all were listed and If I told him what I was looking for, he would look.It was like first service online hidden service..kinda..This kind of online service has slowly given way to email, and delay.Perhaps its time to rollback in time..

[Amy]

Can you chat with other chatango users?

[mip]

You can't create a "buddy list" in Chatango if that's what you mean. Chatting happens completely through the app implemented on the web site. As an online chat tool it is not as robust as something like Messenger. Chatango's strength is that it allows for people who don't have a chat client on their computer to participate in a private chat with you.