Re:The Man Who Made Gmail Says Real-Time Conversation is Wha...
by axod on Friday May 01, 2009 @05:12PM
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IRC? The next big thing? Who would have thought :/
>> "Last time I checked, that's IRC."
The difference is, IRC can scale really well. IRC has worked out how to deal with spam, abuse, botnets, etc etc. You can have moderated, password protected channels, user levels, kicks, bans etc etc. It'd take the 'social stream' thingys a while to replicate that functionality, and the question would be 'why rebuild it?'.
FWIW, I really do believe we'll see a massive resurgence of real time chat this year and next.
It's amazing to look back at just now big it was. Even the BBC ran an IRC server and had regular chats about programs etc. Then they shut everything down and moved to moderated message boards - which suck in terms of user experience.
Since then people have had to try and emulate the experience places like twitter. which results in, again, a bad user experience.
We'll be back to live chat on the web soon enough though.
>> "Last time I checked, that's IRC."
The difference is, IRC can scale really well. IRC has worked out how to deal with spam, abuse, botnets, etc etc. You can have moderated, password protected channels, user levels, kicks, bans etc etc. It'd take the 'social stream' thingys a while to replicate that functionality, and the question would be 'why rebuild it?'.
FWIW, I really do believe we'll see a massive resurgence of real time chat this year and next.
It's amazing to look back at just now big it was. Even the BBC ran an IRC server and had regular chats about programs etc. Then they shut everything down and moved to moderated message boards - which suck in terms of user experience. Since then people have had to try and emulate the experience places like twitter. which results in, again, a bad user experience.
We'll be back to live chat on the web soon enough though.