Google yesterday introduced video chat to the web-based version of it’s Google Talk app (think GMail), but doesn’t appear to interoperate with any of the many existing video chat apps, iChat and Skype tops among them.

Posted November 12, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: chat, gmail, google, google talk, gtalk, ichat, interoperability, skype, video, video chat. Be the first one.

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Games
Tilt, described in programmer Joe Hewitt’s blog:
…Christopher introduced me to a very talented video game designer, Nicole Lazzaro, who had an endless stream of ideas for games that would use the iPhone’s accelerometer. Nicole’s ideas quickly ran into the limitations of the phone, as we discovered that the browser doesn’t rotate when you hold it [...]

Posted July 12, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: aim, applications, chat, games, im, iphone, IRC, remote control. 2 Comments.

Ryan tried to tell me about it a month ago, Jessamyn gets the idea but uses Facebook instead, DeWitt fell for it, Ross said it tipped the tuna, and now I’m finally checking Twitter out. I signed up yesterday and immediately went looking for ways to connect Twitter, Plazes, and iChat.
Tweet is an AppleScript that [...]

Posted March 16, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: chat, chat status, communication, community, plazes, twazer, tweet, twitter, Twitterrific. 2 Comments.

They don’t want to engage in chat with their professors in the classroom space, they want to chat with other students in their own space.
— from Eric Gordon’s presentation this morning.
Hey, isn’t that the lesson that smart folks have been offering for a while now: “Nobody cares about you or your site. Really.” How [...]

Posted November 14, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: academia, academic discourse, chat, im, nercomp, social software, SSTL2006, students. One Comment.

My Treo rocks. Part of my love for the new gadget is how I can now AIM on the run without SMS. Sure, I risk frostbitten fingers as I walk across campus and I’d probably be a lot better off if I just called the person, but…but…
Anyway, Everything Treo was near the top of my [...]

Posted December 16, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: aim, aim client, cellphones, chat, communication, im, instant messaging, mobile communications, mobile phones, palm, treo. 17 Comments.