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Re:Show HN: Water Cooler – Always-available chat for teams by redasadki on Saturday June 06, 2020 @12:20AM (#23436808)
Sqwiggle is an ancestor to this started by Michael Gutman and Matt Boyd c.2012-2013. Some teams at IBM used it. But it freaked people out because it would auto-take a snapshot via your webcam to recreate presence. I thought it was great, but everyone else thought it was creepy. https://web.archive.org/web/20150316035657/https://www.sqwig...
Re:Show HN: Water Cooler – Always-available chat for teams by rpg3 on Saturday June 06, 2020 @12:23AM (#23436820)
Yeah that is a little creepy haha. Water Cooler doesn't do any surveillance like that.