I’ll begin by reminding everyone that this website is generally about my own work. However there is that “and other cool stuff” thingy, right below the Hillel Stoler title, so from time to time I reserve the right to write about cool (or just useful) stuff other people are doing :)
Talkinator is an anonymous chat widget that will work on wordpress.com blogs, thus eliminating the meebo.com monopoly. It was made by the same people who created Mailinator – a single serving mailbox service. The idea behind Talkinator is that people could chat on your blog or website without the need to create a user or download any software.
You can set up a unique chat room of you choice, or (to my understanding) use an existing chat room – in which case people visiting your blog will be able to chat with people on other websites where this room is also available. I’ve created a chat room called “WORDPRESS COM”, you can add it to your blog by copying the following code:
<iframe width="250" height="350" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" src='http://t8ra.info/$r?s=0&t=h&w=250&h=350&c=8b0000&b=WordPress%20Com'></iframe>
Talkinator looks pretty much low-tech (but not in a good way), and lacks on functionality. However, it is very easy to implement, and the code survives the wordpress.com filters. Another downside is the minimum widget size (which is 250px). This limitation will make it harder to put this widget on your wordpress.com blog’s sidebar (which is probably thinner than that). Also, the script generator could be improved (to say the least) but do check it out!
TIP: When you use this chat, a random username is automatically generated for you. You can change your name by writing “/nick NEWNAME” where NEWNAME is of course a name of your choice.
So, after long trying i works and fits in the sidebar. Is it normal, that the messages dissappear, when i close the browser?
Hmmm, when i create a uneditet box, it works, but when i set width and color, the code dont works….
It dont works… :-(((
Thanks the chat box is workin. but when i’m try to type a message. why my nick name become ‘malekitten’???
Nicknames are randomly assigned by Talkinator, but do check out the last paragraph of this post :)
i am very excited! i own a wordpress blog and was looking for chatting service to add in my blog. thanks
i thinkz wordpress.com not support tag iframe
but i want try it :D
it didn`t work :( Left the code only
how do i put this application on my wordpress? or could i only put it in a post
Woww. Excellent. Thanks.
Thanks for the heads up. Will have to try it.
There is a definite need to build a robust Live Chat Application which probably can compete with Meebo.
Talkinator looks good and hope they may add few more features then probably it can be used.
Wow cool…thanks!