I’ve been writing about a cool new company called 3bubbles over on TechCrunch recently. It’s an on the fly chat feature that any blog can easily add.
I’ve added 3bubbles chat to techcrunch tonight. If you’d like to see it in action, just click on the Live Chat link at the bottom of any blog post. See you there!
This is a very cool feature! I wanted to mention that Newsvine also offers a similar tool on their site but it’s in flash and embedded directly into the page for each article.
I love the idea of enabling viewers to interact with each other!
I’m still sticking by my conviction that 3bubbles will work much better on centralized sites like MySpace and Tagworld than the vast majority of low-traffic blogs. News aggregators are a possibility, too. And even if they’re archiving these chats, I wonder about the permalink issues (archived chats will always have a much worse signal-to-noise ratio than blog comments):
http://mashable.com/2006/02/12/3bubbles-why-im-skeptical-about-live-chat-on-blogs/
I’m not saying it’s a bad idea necessarily, but the long tail of blogs seems to be at odds with live chat (which requires critical mass to be useful).
Does seem to bring the children out to play. Which may or may not be a bad thing. I guess…
I guess you should have one chat instead of a chat for every post. That way you could focus the little chat traffic you have in one central point. Second thing is, that if you want to it really to work out you probably have to be online yourself from time to time.
Moritz
Moritz,
Yep, site-wide chatting is good, but we already tried that with shoutboxes and similar tools. As I see it, 3Bubbles simply isn’t useful for the vast majority of blogs and bloggers. Sell those AlexaDex shares, people!