July 30, 2008

Firefly, Chat with visitors on a page, in real time

So, I’ve recently added a new feature to the site, using a pretty cool new web tool, Firefly.

It’s a pretty nifty little javascript tool.  You simply add a small string of code to your site, and visitors can turn live chat on and off.  The chat is displayed over top of your screen, in real time, allowing you to see the chat bubbles and cursors of other users.  When set up as admin, you can control the content allowed in the chats, and ban certain users from chatting on your page, as well as look up logs from your chat.  It’s like the next evolution of twitter.  People can leave messages, or interact with your site, on a whole new level.

I’m going to leave it installed for the forseeable future on this site, unless I feel it needs to come down, enjoy playing with it! (simply click the handy slider in the sidebar!)

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