Chatsum Beta Now Open To The Public!
Tell your family, tell your friends, Chatsum has gone open beta and now absolutely anybody can join in for free.
We’ve had a great response from our closed beta testers who’ve been nagging us to open it up for everyone so that’s exactly what we’ve done. Please bear in mind this is still a beta and currently only available for Firefox. Bandwidth charges permitting we’re now getting to work on adding more features and support for more browsers.
Visit this page, fill out the form, get using Chatsum and let us know what you think.
Help us spread the word, Digg Us!
http://digg.com/technology/Chatsum_released_
Seriously, guys! I’ve been an Alpha tester for half a year now and I love this thing to death! Download it and check it out if you havn’t already!
Btw, if you can’t find anyone to chat with, check out Chatsum’s Home page for friendly helpers!
~John Wesley
Comment by John Wesley — May 29, 2006 @ 5:51 pm
Chatsum! beta - extensión interesante - ¡Ya abierta al púbico!…
Para poder conversar con personas que estén visitando la misma página. Yo llevo usandola un tiempo y me gusta, pero ahora con la beta abierta, la cosa aumentará
. Animaros 
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Trackback by meneame.net — May 29, 2006 @ 10:43 pm
great extension, so easy anyone can use it…no reason not to download it!
Comment by Jason — June 4, 2006 @ 6:43 pm
Hi Guys…hurry
The Brasilians discovered ChatSum, we need now more utilities like individuals delete posts, or block persons.
And I advice u to learn some portuguese.
Nice job!
bye!
Comment by Armando Fontes — June 6, 2006 @ 5:16 pm
I liked very much but I wanted to ask something (please answer in my e-mail)
Won’t the user option to talk with other people in private room ? (like MSN or Irc)
If it will done I would like to suggest all my users (18000) to use this extension to talk each other.
Comment by Diogo Pires — June 9, 2006 @ 12:31 pm
Hi,
Chatsum is pretty beautiful, no disagreement on that. Kinda like stumbleupon but on speed.
Still, I have my doubts. People don’t usually stay that long on one site, and the odds that enough chatsum users (who aren’t that many) would end up on the same site in the same time isn’t that big. Of course, once a site would be slashdotted it might make sense to chatsum on that site, but still seems marginal.
“Places to Chatsum” is good - though it just seems to show that no one is chatting anywhere.
You just need to set an absolutely fabulous strategy to get the critical mass on to the service at the same time, so that people would have that experience of this thing bringing some added value to their web experience. I haven’t, yet, due to the lack of chatters.
Further ideas: please make it possible to have chatsum in a window of its own so that lower-resolution users would not have it stealing their valuable browser width all the time - my screen is 1280×1024 and even I feel a sidebar is in my way, but I have another screen on which it would be nice to move the Chatsum window.
Also, it would be nice if the site and and the page tabs showed the number of active chatters on those chans so I don’t have to click to find out.
Most importantly though, now that you have created a great engine to get feedback from site visitors, you definitely should always have someone available on the chatsum.com channel to discuss the service and to give feedback on the feedback. Have you thought about e-mail alerts to users when their site is being chatted on?
Also if I click a link in the chat in the middle of a conversation, I get forceably out of the chat, though I just wanted to see the link, not leave the chat. Of course that’s a part of the idea of chatsum, but I guess the idea needs some rethinking.
Kind regards,
Olli Savolainen
Comment by Olli Savolainen — June 9, 2006 @ 9:36 pm
I think Chatsum is great. There’s just one thing I would like to suggest. Some way to have a private conversation, or anything so you can choose who you want to talk to. It’s nice to be able to talk between friends on Chatsum while you browse a site, but it’s REALLY annoying when some idiot comes up and starts posting pointless messages.
If you can put anything like this into Chatsum I would be highly greatful
Comment by Tom — June 14, 2006 @ 1:47 am
*cough* Like I did to some poor helpless guy named Tom a while back.
Yes, private conversations would be nice.
Comment by NightHawk — June 16, 2006 @ 6:38 pm
You’re obviously having a critical member mass problem. In my humble opinion Chatsum is not useable because there are just not enough users online and on the same page.
A way around this could be to add features such as:
http://www.cocomment.com/
They track when a message you have placed has an answer. You’d need to modify the concept. This way I could comment on a site and then have a motivation to come back to chat when my comment is answered.
The other way may be to co-ordinate time when people can login at the same time and chat. For example, if I were you, I’d set a count down time on the website that invites people to login when it reaches zero and chat about chatsums future (while looking at the chatsum site). The concept can be expanded to other sites.
Bottom line is you need a way to get a new user to keep coming back. At the moment they’ll login and see nobody is there and bugger off, probably never to be heard from again.
I’d appreciate replies.
Comment by Mrbeardy — June 23, 2006 @ 4:21 am