TalkerApp launched

Re:TalkerApp launched by axod on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @01:17PM (#1032862)

Congrats. Nice to see more entrants to the webchat space :)

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Re:TalkerApp launched by Tawheed on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @11:51AM (#1032671)

Looks like a lot of chat applications are launching lately. Also check out http://hipchat.com

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Re:TalkerApp launched by axod on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @02:15PM (#1033008)

hipchat looks like download only desktop app. I don't understand why people would go that route these days.

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Re:TalkerApp launched by dugmartin on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @02:18PM (#1033021)

To the devs: have you thought about using BOSH and ejabberd? That way you wouldn't have to poll for updates.

I built a little toy app that used BOSH and ejabberd to do chats - upside is you get all the extensibility of XMPP and the downside is that you have to deal with all the extensibility of XMPP. :)

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Re:TalkerApp launched by macournoyer_ on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @02:33PM (#1033074)

Yes we tried XMPP at first but was way to complex for our needs.

We use Orbited for comet. The backend chat server is custom and based on RabbitMQ. See our protocol on https://talker.tenderapp.com/faqs/api/talker-protocol

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Re:TalkerApp launched by dugmartin on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @05:31PM (#1033582)

Nice work on the protocol. Very light weight.

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Re:TalkerApp launched by joshwa on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @01:12PM (#1032855)

the site needs screenshots/info about builtin feed integration and APIs, which are the core differentiators from campfire

(this comes from someone who contributes to and writes plugins for a campfire bot:

http://github.com/joshwand/campfire-bot

)

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Re:TalkerApp launched by macournoyer_ on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @01:24PM (#1032877)

Yes! That's what we're working on now, we just decided to launch before we had video/tour on the site. Thx for the suggestion.

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Re:TalkerApp launched by Tawheed on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @01:56PM (#1032946)

Is it just me or is the video/tour a very tedious thing to do... I've been putting it off myself for my site.

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Re:TalkerApp launched by aristus on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @04:09PM (#1033359)

Yes, very tedious, and always lags behind the latest version -- maybe that should be your next business. :D

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Re:TalkerApp launched by Tawheed on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @04:45PM (#1033468)

Write demo scripts in Selenium and have it "play" the demo for the user on the actual app using a demo account.

Hm....quit tempting me!

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Re:TalkerApp launched by wastedbrains on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @01:57PM (#1032951)

Nice good luck, I am interested to see what people do with the API.

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Re:TalkerApp launched by jcapote on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @12:32PM (#1032758)

No offense, but why this and not campfire? (who has a free version)

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Re:TalkerApp launched by macournoyer_ on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @01:00PM (#1032827)

Talker is more extensible, we're focusing on API and plugins http://talker.tenderapp.com/faqs/api, has inline feed notification for eg.: github commits, twitter search results, tickets updates in the chat room. And a lot more to come.

Talker also has a free version (4 concurrent users) https://talkerapp.com/signup/free

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Re:TalkerApp launched by bentlegen on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @01:14PM (#1032859)

I'm really excited about applications that provide JavaScript-based APIs.

DabbleDB is another app that does this: http://dabbledb.com/help/guides/jsapi/

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Re:TalkerApp launched by axod on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @01:11PM (#1032850)

Is campfire really in development any more? Seemed a bit of a dead project last time I looked.

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Re:TalkerApp launched by hajrice on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @01:57PM (#1032949)

Now this is awesome!!!

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