Hey guys, I'm one of the founders of Chatterous. I've created a Hacker News Chatterous group that can serve as a real-time backchannel for fellow Hacker News readers. Simply send your gtalk, email, sms or Chatterous username to [email protected] and we'll invite you to the group!

Also, an interesting story: While practicing our pitches we setup a Chatterous group for our fellow YC founders to provide real-time feedback for our presentations. It actually got to a point where people weren't paying attention to the presentations anymore and became immersed in Chatterous! We feel that Chatterous is super easy to use because of the fact that you don't need to navigate to our website, even as a Chatterous user - it's one of your IM buddies on gtalk, or an e-mail address, or an SMS short code. Think of it as IRC meets Twitter for the Hacker News community :)