First Glimpse: 3bubbles
It's great to able to finally say something about 3bubbles, a company I have been advising since October last year. Starting next week they will be rolling out a limited beta of their technology: real-time chat for blogs. You can sign up here for the open beta, some time in the near future..
The model is to support the integration of chat into blogs: a chat room for your blog, even one for every post. Imagine that next to your post's "comments (2) | trackbacks (1)" there was an additional "chat (5)" indicating that 5 people were discussing that post, right now.
The company will be releasing complete information next week, and will be rolling out on a small number of blogs, like here at /Message, followed by an increasingly open beta.
The technology is neat (full disclosure, again: I am consulting to the company, and as a member of the advisory board, I have a financial interest. Be warned: I am not unbiased! This is not an independent assessment! Floss daily!) which is what first attracted me to the company, along with the story of the founders. One, Drew Golkar, dropped out of college to pursue his 3bubbles dream, and another is Jeremie Miller, who is well known to me and others as the inventor of the Jabber protocol. Good DNA and cool juju.
I introduced the company to a bunch of smart people of over the last few months, including Michael Arrington, who is also leaking a glimpse of the technology with me tonight.
Stay tuned!
Stowe, any chance of an invite or a good word taking into account my ongoing interest in "conversations"
Posted by: Lee Wilkins | February 11, 2006 at 12:08 AM
theres a way to bypass the normal registration (wich is not public right now). hope it will be fixed soon:
http://www.dittes.info/blog/2006/02/12/3bubbles-preview-even-if-its-still-closed-for-public-i-got-in/
Posted by: Andreas Dittes | February 11, 2006 at 06:35 PM
Stowe, "chat" is so 90's ...
Posted by: Cem Basman | February 13, 2006 at 09:46 AM
I would be cool blogs which wrote about the same thing had the same chatroom. For example if you wrote something and I added a trackback to you, we would share the same chatroom for that specific post :) Then I think it would be useful.
Posted by: Marlun | February 13, 2006 at 11:28 PM
I agree with Cem. Chat is not enough any longer. If you see what is possible right now, you don´t need another tool as webmobs. Meet people on every website as real personal ones. Information on http://www.virtual-presence.org and http://www.webmobs.de.
I got it from a press release. It is amazing. complete new feeling beeing present on the web. after trying you will understand what web 2.0 is about, what social software means.
Posted by: Leo Federer | February 15, 2006 at 12:43 PM