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Google Takes Down HuddleChat After Complaints [Warning]
desmondhaynes writes "There were striking similarities between one of Google's App Engine demos, HuddleChat (a real-time chat application) and the Campfire app from 37Signals. Google has taken HuddleChat down from the App Engine app gallery." Google explains: 'The App Engine team was looking for some sample apps to help kick the tires on their new system, so we invited Googlers to build some as side projects. A couple of our colleagues here built HuddleChat in their spare time because they wanted to share work within their team more easily and thought persistent web chat would do the trick. We've heard some complaints from the developer community, though, so rather than divert attention from Google App Engine itself, we thought it better to just take HuddleChat down.'" We noted the launch of Google's App Engine yesterday.
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When I need to reach my contacts on the blogosphere 2.0, to let them know, for example when I'm doing lunch, or taking a vac-a, I just que up my batch chat application, que up the chats in that, (including my questions and a list of possible answers) and presto.. 45 minutes later the batch is done, and all of my contacts are notified, and we had a meaningful (though somewhat predictable) conversation.
I don't know who really needs real-time chat, except maybe pilots, or UAV operators.
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
I know! Let's call it UDP!
I just thought you should know that I've tried explaining this to everyone around me that heard me laughing, and I think I failed at it.
Anyone else think the comments just weren't rendering right before they turned off ABP and saw ads?
Google had spent a couple weeks developing HuddleChat but then they read this Slashdot story on Monday and realized that they are all/mostly introverts and really don't like Chat and IM programs after all.
The 37Signals story is just a cover-up so they don't look silly.
Are you saying you're going to develop a web-based web browser?
That would be like totally awesome, imagine being able to browse the web from any web-capable device!
I never apologize. I'm sorry, but that's just the way I am.
I wrote something like this 5 years ago, so we could have a chat meeting with some clients who were behind a corporate firewall. It wasn't that pretty, but it did pretty much the same thing, and it only took a couple of hours to write.
I would be ashamed to put something so trivial out into the community and charge people money for it.
Wish my girlfriend bent over as quickly and easily as Google.
So, when will Google be taking down every other service offering they have besides search? Everything they offer outside of Search and Google Earth are "me-too" products when you get right down to it.
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