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Chatzy - Start Quick Chat

Chatzy - Start Quick Chat. Good alternative to traditional chat sites. No registration, free, no popup ads, no installation, any pc and through corporate firewalls.

Hab.la Instant chat using your existing client

Hab.la  lets visitors to your website chat with you without any extra chat software. Their messages show up in your favorite instant messaging app. What I particularly liked about this one is that the chat box stays open even if they move to another page on your site.

TinyChat.com - Create a free chatroom

The TinyChat resource works very quickly and easily - it will create a room for you and you can just dive in. It also works in conjunction with Twitter, and invites you to use your Twitter name. However, the downside is that if you use your Twitter name it takes control of your account and posts a message on your behalf to say you're chatting, which I think is really out of order. There are also no admin controls, so if someone unsavoury should manage to get in there's little to be done about it, short of leaving and creating a new room.

However, for a chat between friends that were on Twitter at the same time, a quick DM to let them know the room details and it could be quite useful. Don't know if the room every closes though - it may do once everyone leaves or it might sit around for ever! A friend has offered to babysit it for an hour to see what happens....

Webby Chat

Webby Chat.  The chat box opens in a window in the browser, which remains over a site visit. Looks ok, though names appear to be based on your location, but I was talking to a developer who said that they're working on that. It looks to be an interesting resource and does mean you can continue a chat with someone even if they're doing other things on your site. Worth checking out.

Jabbify

Jabbify. Add a chat box to your web page in seconds.

Campfire

Business chat, file sharing, group decision making: Campfire. Good for group chatting, simple file sharing, sharing images and code.

ajchat.com

Add chat to your blog or website with ajchat.com.

GagaLive - Real time chat room, counter, hosting

GagaLive - Real time chat room, counter, hosting. This is a nice looking resource. You can add a chat box anywhere that will accept HTML. According to the developer, you can have several versions, all linking to the same chat room. It can also take over 500 users in the same room. Although the features are basic, it's very fast and impressive. Take a look!

Meebo rooms

Meebo rooms. Meebo is well known for offering funky little gadgets that allow you to chat via IM without having to install anything. They've now gone to the next level and created chat rooms that you can embed onto a page. They're getting a lot of buzz, although I'm not sure why, since plenty of other people are embedding chat rooms such as Gabbly chat for example, though to be fair, Meebo does give you the opportunity of embedding video and so on.

Meebo rooms

Read more at About meebo rooms. It looks a bit like Gabbly, but is rather more advanced. You can add in video and such like. I'll have to give this a go because it does look fun.