What is the most user friendly and computer accessible way to set up group chat for a Facebook group? [more inside]
posted on Jul 3, 2008 - 1 answers

Is there a way to make an email list announce-only for some recipients and unmoderated for others? [more inside]
posted on Jun 25, 2008 - 5 answers

Text-based chat room games? [more inside]
posted on Jun 2, 2008 - 6 answers

A friend had a question I was uncertain about... is there a way on a laptop running Vista -- short of having two sound cards -- where you can have Ventrillo voice chat through any kind of headphones, while at the same time having entirely seperate streaming radio playing to speakers through the audio out port on the laptop? She's open to any kind of headphones or any streaming audio software which would support this. Failing this... is there a good, simple, ideally non-invasive workaround to add a second sound card to a laptop?
posted on Apr 9, 2008 - 5 answers

Besides Google Groups, where else can I find archives of discussions from the early days of the internet? (on any subject)
posted on Mar 11, 2008 - 7 answers

I'm looking for a web chat for visitors to my company's website... [more inside]
posted on Jan 22, 2008 - 8 answers

Other than #mefi, Are there any chat rooms or chat services still out there not full of spambots? [more inside]
posted on Jan 18, 2008 - 7 answers

Let's say I have a small group of people -- 10 and under -- and I want to provide a stable, private chat room that participants can enter and exit at will. Let's further say that I would want whatever software that provides this to account for different technical skills (no command-prompts) and when everyone leaves the room it isn't taken down needing to be recreated again in the future? Proprietary software is fine. For Profit software is fine. (Free is better!! ;-)
posted on Oct 27, 2007 - 12 answers

My grandfather read a review of Oovoo last week and wants to get everyone in the fam web cams so we can chat video style. I was hoping to get some input on people's favorite webcams and chat software. [more inside]
posted on Oct 10, 2007 - 8 answers

I run a small, private forum for a few friends who are scattered across the US & Canada. I'm looking for easy ways to incorporate other ways for me to enable additional communication between members - whether it's a group voice chat or a chat room. I need help figuring out how to do this very easily (I was barely technical enough to install a pretty skin for my phpBB), very cheaply (preferably free), and so that it maintains a reasonable level of privacy. Can you help me figure this out? [more inside]
posted on Sep 25, 2007 - 7 answers

Is there such thing as totally real time online chat? [more inside]
posted on Sep 2, 2007 - 16 answers

World of Warcraft filter: I want to create a group channel for all 3 guilds on the site channel. Possibly mod or addon? [more inside]
posted on Aug 13, 2007 - 4 answers

Anyone know of any good internet based IM sites... [more inside]
posted on Jul 20, 2007 - 16 answers

Small, free, UDP-based server/client text chat application with no central server - does it exist? [more inside]
posted on Jul 18, 2007 - 7 answers

What interesting statistics can I make from the following data? [more inside]
posted on Jul 2, 2007 - 8 answers

What's the simplest, easiest, fastest way to create a search engine for a discussion website (in particular, this one) which is NOT RUN by that website, but on another computer, and which recognizes as searchable/sortable fields: 1) the "board" the post is in, 2) the titles as well as the bodies of posts, and 3) the dates the posts were made? Oh, and it should update with new posts every few hours, say.
posted on Jun 17, 2007 - 4 answers

Don't want that sound when sending an AOL IM response. [more inside]
posted on Jun 5, 2007 - 7 answers

What happened to character-by-character chat? I miss the intimacy, subtle nuances of meaning, and most of all the ability to interrupt one another and complete one another's sentences that was inherent in old-school unix 'talk'. How can I replicate this nowadays? [more inside]
posted on May 21, 2007 - 21 answers

Did AOL change something with AIM statuses? [more inside]
posted on May 15, 2007 - 3 answers

I'm looking for an off-topic message board, but I don't know if it exists. [more inside]
posted on May 9, 2007 - 25 answers

Deceptively unchatfilter =P I am looking for good discussions on Occam's Razor -- which I think is obscenely absurd. Looking for links to discussions, not necessarily petitioning comments (although welcome). [more inside]
posted on Feb 13, 2007 - 28 answers

What's a good webcam for video chatting on OS X? [more inside]
posted on Jan 23, 2007 - 12 answers

Is there a website that people can use to chat and IM without actually using the the IM software? I thought I had read about such a site in an article about teens outsmarting the filters on their school computers, but I cannot remember what the site was called. Does this ring a bell with anyone?
posted on Jan 3, 2007 - 22 answers

I run a web design company, and want to set up a website based chat client so I can see when someone is perusing my site and pop up a chat window to help them with any questions... [more inside]
posted on Dec 3, 2006 - 12 answers

Chat-at-Work-Filter: In my line of consulting I end up working at a number of client sites where the client's IT department has succeeded in convincing management that Instant Messaging is the devil... [more inside]
posted on Nov 28, 2006 - 25 answers

I am trying to create a brief weekly calendar for work of upcoming events that will be posted as an AOL IM away message that people can check throughout the week. How can I create a longer AIM away message than the default allows? [more inside]
posted on Nov 28, 2006 - 7 answers

I want to start an internet forum for kids - what are the applicable laws? [more inside]
posted on Nov 21, 2006 - 4 answers

How do I figure out how long my AIM screen name has been active?
posted on Sep 30, 2006 - 13 answers

I use Adium as my instant messenging client. I am in the process of moving user accounts and I would like to take all of my settings and data with me. How do I do it?
posted on Sep 19, 2006 - 3 answers

what's up with chat lines like livelinks & quest? are they fronts for escort services? I'm up late a lot & they play those commercials on tv constantly. I've always been kind of curious.
posted on Jul 27, 2006 - 6 answers

I have a Logitech Messenger webcam and a Mac (10.3.9) and I downloaded the macam software. How do I chat with a friend who has a PC and another Logitech webcam? Should we use AIM? Yahoo? Excuse me if the question's too easy but I'm a total webcam n00b and what I found on Google is quite contradictory. Thanks!
posted on Jul 14, 2006 - 9 answers

How do I participate in a chat where the others frequently talk about personal topics, but want me not to but in, since I am not a long-time member? [more inside]
posted on Jun 27, 2006 - 16 answers

Researching World of Warcraft: I'm a graduate student studying online communication and social organization. I'm very interested in analyzing the chat interactions that happen in WoW. So far as I can tell, however, there's no way to save a transcript of the chat window. Is there any way to capture these interactions? [more inside]
posted on May 1, 2006 - 8 answers

Where can I find and participate in high-level, Metafilter-style discussion of relationships? [more inside]
posted on Apr 25, 2006 - 10 answers

Where on the internet can you go for anonymous support when you are feeling just a little blue? [more inside]
posted on Mar 5, 2006 - 13 answers

I have a Mac (10.4.5), my Dad has a PC (XP Home). We both have cable modems. We want to video chat. What apps can we use together? Bonus points if I can continue to use iChatAV. [more inside]
posted on Feb 24, 2006 - 11 answers

Help my AOL—illiterate parents connect to me for a video chat. [more inside]
posted on Feb 3, 2006 - 7 answers

He plays on webcam with other girls, and I feel cheated upon. [more inside]
posted on Nov 4, 2005 - 44 answers

Incorporating chat into web browsing? [more inside]
posted on Sep 24, 2005 - 9 answers

Where can I find an easy, modular, includable, threaded (preferably) chat forum? [more inside]
posted on Sep 23, 2005 - 5 answers

Can anyone recommend a web-based chat system, preferably free? [more inside]
posted on Sep 23, 2005 - 5 answers

Anybody know of an app like the now defunct AIMWatcher that will chart AIM buddy availibility over time? [more inside]
posted on Jul 6, 2005 - 5 answers

So I'm interested in finally using my iChat to meet and hang out with folks online, as well as use my iSight for something more than scanning books. Does anybody know of fun ways to meet folks in iChat? Perhaps a community or two? [more inside]
posted on Mar 29, 2005 - 3 answers

Whats a good, public, lightweight, web-based chat service? Some friends of mine and I will be traveling around Asia, meeting up in different places, then diverging, then meeting up again etc. [more inside]
posted on Mar 23, 2005 - 13 answers

Does anyone have recommendations as to voice chat software for a forum? We'd ideally like to have a regulated chat room in vbulletin where one person has voice control (for a lesson type environment), but standalone software could work too (except paltalk). Ability to control who can enter the chat is a must.
posted on Mar 17, 2005 - 2 answers

I'm looking for intelligent conversation. Does anyone have any recommendations for laid-back online chat? [More Inside]
posted on Jan 13, 2005 - 13 answers

Is there an IM client that will allow voice chat from behind a firewall? I can change my settings but the person I'm trying to talk to is sitting behind a Linksys router with default firewall settings and is unwilling to let me change them.
posted on Nov 22, 2004 - 6 answers

Isn't there a site or application which can monitor the times at which your chat/ messenger contacts are online? I've done some serious Googling and MeFi searching on this but have turned up nothing, so maybe I'm searching for the wrong thing.
posted on Aug 10, 2004 - 4 answers

I need to add a chat room to a website
posted on Jun 24, 2004 - 5 answers

I've tried google, I've tried reading for context, but I'm finally stumped. What does "H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^" mean when inserted into a comment thread?
posted on May 31, 2004 - 16 answers