Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Chatmaker From Download Squad: "Ever need to organize a group chat with a bunch of people who have never heard of IRC and can't seem to agree on a common IM client? ChatMaker makes it easy to set up a temporary web-based chatroom which you can discard when you're done. How easy? All you have to do is name your room and click the "Go" button. Seriously, that's it. There's no registration required. In fact, there's not even an option to create an account, which means that when you login to a chat room you'll have an unwieldy name like Guest 1817. But you can easily change your name using the IRC-like /nick command. You can also designate actions by typing /me, but that's about it for the IRC commands. ChatMaker also supports some basic HTML commands like for providing a hyperlink, for italics, and for bold. While ChatMaker probably isn't going to win any awards for its interface, the service could be the easiest we've ever seen for setting up a multi-user chatroom." 2:30:09 PM

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