TalkerApp launched

http://talkerapp.tumblr.com/post/318143310/we-launched-whats-next

by dan_sim • 17 years ago

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Tawheed3• 17 years ago

Looks like a lot of chat applications are launching lately. Also check out http://hipchat.com

axod3• 17 years ago

hipchat looks like download only desktop app. I don't understand why people would go that route these days.

jcapote• 17 years ago

No offense, but why this and not campfire? (who has a free version)

macournoyer_3• 17 years ago

Talker is more extensible, we're focusing on API and plugins http://talker.tenderapp.com/faqs/api, has inline feed notification for eg.: github commits, twitter search results, tickets updates in the chat room. And a lot more to come.

Talker also has a free version (4 concurrent users) https://talkerapp.com/signup/free

bentlegen• 17 years ago

I'm really excited about applications that provide JavaScript-based APIs.

DabbleDB is another app that does this: http://dabbledb.com/help/guides/jsapi/

axod3• 17 years ago

Is campfire really in development any more? Seemed a bit of a dead project last time I looked.

joshwa• 17 years ago

the site needs screenshots/info about builtin feed integration and APIs, which are the core differentiators from campfire

(this comes from someone who contributes to and writes plugins for a campfire bot:

http://github.com/joshwand/campfire-bot

)

macournoyer_3• 17 years ago

Yes! That's what we're working on now, we just decided to launch before we had video/tour on the site. Thx for the suggestion.

Tawheed3• 17 years ago

Is it just me or is the video/tour a very tedious thing to do... I've been putting it off myself for my site.

axod3• 17 years ago

Congrats. Nice to see more entrants to the webchat space :)

hajrice• 17 years ago

Now this is awesome!!!

wastedbrains• 17 years ago

Nice good luck, I am interested to see what people do with the API.

dugmartin2• 17 years ago

To the devs: have you thought about using BOSH and ejabberd? That way you wouldn't have to poll for updates.

I built a little toy app that used BOSH and ejabberd to do chats - upside is you get all the extensibility of XMPP and the downside is that you have to deal with all the extensibility of XMPP. :)

macournoyer_3• 17 years ago

Yes we tried XMPP at first but was way to complex for our needs.

We use Orbited for comet. The backend chat server is custom and based on RabbitMQ. See our protocol on https://talker.tenderapp.com/faqs/api/talker-protocol

dugmartin2• 17 years ago

Nice work on the protocol. Very light weight.

TalkerApp launched

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