MetaFilter posts tagged with IM and chat

Omegle - like a slot machine, only with people

Lush — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:10:26 -0800

Talk to strangers! "When you use Omegle, we pick another user at random and let you have a one-on-one chat with each other." [via waxy]

Salmoning: a bot-initiated two-way chat surprise

Mo Nickels — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:42:07 -0800

Have you been salmoned? I just met a stranger from Denver via the process of salmoning, in which a chatbot initiates an unexpected two-way conversation between two (apparently random) nicks, giving them both aliases ending with "salmon," and leaving both parties confused. Like this guy says, once you figure out what's going on when you've been salmoned, you can have a pretty good chat. In my case, the bot's opening line was, "Fill in the blank: I'll eat me candy with the [blank]. Excuse my manners if I make a scene." (It's from a Weezer song; the answer is "pork and beans.") My unwitting partner's nick was EconomicSalmon, so for a minute I thought it was Felix Salmon, who writes about finance and economics. My random nick was, apparently, MilkySalmon. A typical salmon chat. Another. One more. Still one more.

making port 80 a bigger hole in the corporate firewall

machaus — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 17:29:46 -0800

Meebo.com. Web based chat (alpha) for all the main IM protocols.

::talkGoogle is listening on port 5222::

rzklkng — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 06:32:27 -0800

Google's big announcement due on Wednesday. Google is due to make an announcement on Wednesday of a new service focusing on presence and communication. The word on the internets is that it will be a chat and IM client. Google already has a chat client in the picture sharing app, Hello, which is available in both standalone install and as part of Picasa. Possible screenshot of the app is here, with additional coverage at BigBlueBall and Neowin. The prevalent consensus seems to be that it will be (or be based on ) Jabber, (PDF) with the core innovation being the use of XMPP.

Chatango

Blue Stone — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 09:01:36 -0800

"Disposable" Instant Messaging. Click a link and chat to someone with just your browser*. "Include [a link] when you create eBay auctions, Craigslist personals, weblogs, moblogs, personal websites, Friendster, etc. and viewers will be able to contact you instantly." *Requires Flash.

The English-to-12-Year-Old-AOLer Translator

riffola — Sun, 10 Aug 2003 22:42:31 -0800

DA ENGLISH-2-12-Y3AR-OLD-AOLER TRANSLA2R WIL TAEK WUT U WRIET IN IT AND TURN IT IN2 TEH MAN3R A 12-YEAR-OLD AOLER WUD WRIET IT!1!1 LOL JUST WUT U NED 2 KIK START A MONDAY!!1!!

arnab — Mon, 31 Dec 2001 22:29:46 -0800

Yahoo IMvironments are the latest fad that the company's come up with. It makes your chatting easier, prettier and more fun - and a lot more bulky and resource hungry. I don't know how many people here actually use Y!, but my guess is this wont take long to disappear.

davehat — Fri, 07 Dec 2001 08:25:22 -0800

Trillian, one of the better chat programs out there, just got better. Version 0.70 is now available and it runs smoothly and looks great.

jcterminal — Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:53:30 -0800

Attention ChatMonkeys. Are you addicted to chat programs? AIM? ICQ? Yahoo and MSN? Even have two instances of mIRC running? Now there's hope. You can have all of these running all at once using *just one program*. And it uses far less resources than all of those other programs put together. matter of fact, i think it uses less resources than icq itself (like that's hard). It's skinnable too! Score!

/me hands out the needles.