chat around any webpage
Gabbly is a interesting project that uses Javascript to create chat windows on any given page. For example, you can browse to http://gabbly.com/http://infobong.com and chat on this blog. Of course, it’s unlikely that anyone would be chatting here, since I have so few readers. Since bOINGbOING is the most widely read English-language blog according to Technorati, I decided to check and see if there was a Gabbly chat going on there, but at that time, there was no one chatting. One nice thing about the service is that the chats seem to be persistent — you can see old chats even if everyone has left. It also allows you to embed chats into other sites. I tried to embed a chat window in LiveJournal and MySpace, but apparently those sites block iframes. It’s nice to discover MySpace blocks something other than HTML entities.
