'Net Features : chat widget

Zoho Chat with Everyone

MaureenA — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:00:00 GMT

Zoho, a company known for its collection of online products for small- and medium-sized businesses launched its Chat 2.0 Multi-Channel version. This new version allows users to log into multiple instant messenger platforms at the same time, allowing for conversations with colleagues and friends who use different IM products including Yahoo!, Google, MSN and AIM. Chat 2.0 is integrated into other Zoho products to streamline business practices and conversation. Website Magazine has covered Zoho product launches and applications in previous posts.

Other additions to Chat 2.0 include Zoho Meeting, which allows users to share desktops with other users; Zoho Calendar to allow users to organize events and meetings; and Groups to allow users to organize contacts. The company offers 19 products ranging from e-mail, word processing to invoicing and CRM - some free and others paid, depending on the size of the business.

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99Chats Chat Room Widget

Pete Prestipino — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:27:00 GMT

I have some reservations about using third-party widgets when there are so many exceptional, so many more robust commercial solutions available on the market, but if you're just getting started on the Web and are looking to add chat room functionality, the 99Widgets Group has launched 99Chats.com, a free flash chat room widget that might be of interest.

99Chats.com is fully customizable (colors, background and fonts to border style, size and design and even the opacity level), but webmasters and weblog owners can also create their own themes or choose one of the ready-to-use themes available.

What is unique about the solution, and what will be interesting, is that 99Chats.com allows users to extend interaction with visitors with realtime text messaging on almost any web resource as it uses pure flash code.

99Chats.com is lightweight and takes only 65KB. It also supports tabbed private messaging with chat members, block user, and flood detection and prevention mechanism, and it works in any language. 99Widgets actually has quite a few widgets available, including those for polls, counters and others.