Chatsum has been one of those “web apps” that I enjoyed using when it came out, as did some of the students in the office. I’ve commented on Chatsum before, but in short, it lets you chat with other users who are visiting the same webpage you are, which is interesting to say the least.
Chatsum is dying though.
I haven’t been using it much, but I do occasionally open the extension to take a look at what is going on, which typically isn’t much, aside from comments on how, as said on Chatsum:
marcmarc (2 days ago): chatsum puts an emphasis on actual “chatting” though it’s not popular enough to actually do that
I wish that wasn’t true, but there hasn’t been much done or said by the developers on the Dev blog] or the personal sites of the main developers George or Lee. One reason nothing has been done with it is that in the most recent Dev blog post, George mentioned that he was going to San Francisco at the end of July for Yahoo!’s 2006 Design Expo. Perhaps Yahoo! managed to get the rights to Chatsum but prevented George or Lee from commenting on it doing so. Perhaps they were approached by Microsoft, a rumor that the users on orkut started/heard before Lee or George knew. Who really knows? Their absence and/or lack of posting just adds more confusion and creates more questions.
George has his e-mail on the website… maybe I send him one.
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