2 posts tagged “chat”
Last week, YahooLive! was the talk of my seesmic and twitter friends. Suffering from the monkey see, monkey do syndrome, I had to go check it out.
YahooLive! is a text and video chatroom. You log in with your Yahoo credentials, create your room name (Channel), turn on your webcam and voila! You are broadcasting live from your home or office. It is similar to the Yahoo chatrooms where you have various audiences or chatters in whichever channel. The difference is, instead of picking one chatter who might decline your advances for a private chat and/or webcam broadcast, you get to choose and rotate among four users in your room to watch and have a real-time conversation. You, as the channel owner, are able to moderate your guests. You may ban or kick any user you want instead of waiting for someone else to take care of the troll.
It is only a week old and it does have it's glitches. For one thing, I was able to broadcast via Firefox when I first logged on but now, I find that I am only able to do so via Internet Explorer. Even then, my audio was cocked up. I am not very sure if it ws my sluggish satellite connection or the bugginess of YahooLive! but it was rather annoying because I had to type instead of just talking to my audience. It defeats the purpose of being there in the first place. For the record, when I broadcast my webcam via Skype or MSN, the audio works fine so I do not think it has to do with my webcam.
I was perusing my Pownce pages a few months ago and someone asked if anyone wanted a photophlow invite. I had no idea what it was but of course, later found that it was a chat room whereby you can view flickr photos and have discussions about them. I do that quite a bit (whenever satellite connection and time permit) with my friends on MSN.
Now the problem with photophlow is that you need your friends (or contacts on flickr) to be there in your own room. (I have a room of my own again. YAY!) in order to have that kind of conversation that you might have on any IM. But no matter, I go to the main ante room and meet new people and view more photos. :)
If you have a flickr account, like viewing photos and making friends, check it out!
