Hi, friends!
If you obsessively stalk follow me on Twitter or FriendFeed, you might know that over the past few months, I’ve been lurking around the video chat service Tinychat. Although I’ve never written anything about them on That Other Blog, I’ve enjoyed playing around as the site has grown and improved.
I mean, y’all know I love video. And y’all know I love to chat in a real-timey, Internety kinda way. So how was I not going to love the massively multiplayer video chat-gasm that Tinychat is?
At first, as with any launch-early-launch-often startup, there were a few hiccups with browser compatibility and those damn pesky trolls, but, as creator Dan Blake was kind enough to tell me over the subsequent weeks, those glitches and kinks keep getting smoothed out all the time. The last time I used Tinychat, for a middle-of-the-night free-for-all on the day’s geek news (and gossip!), it was the most fun I’d had in ages.
So when Dan contacted me last week and asked how I’d like to work with their team to help get the word out about their product and respond to concerns raised by the Tinychat community, nothing seemed like a more natural fit. I’m thrilled to tell you, my friends, that I’ll be working with Tinychat the company, and yes, I’ll be playing on Tinychat the website a lot more, too! Yaaaay!
CONFLICT OF INTEREST CLAUSE:
With regard to That Other Blog, there are questions raised about conflict of interest.
I’m a journalist, and I sometimes write about web apps that are quite similar to Tinychat. As previously mentioned, I’ve never written about Tinychat in the past, and I will not be writing in a journalistic way about Tinychat in the future. I will continue to cover this space with absolute neutrality. There will be no overlap whatsoever, not even in my little brainbox, between Tinychat and RWW.
Allow me to illustrate:
And with that out of the way, I can’t wait to see you all online! Honestly, this “job” is really just a great excuse for me to spend more time doing something I’d be doing anyhow. Feel free to raise questions in the comments or email me. Hope to Tinychat with you soon!
24 Comments
October 8, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Nice Jolie, go get ‘em.
October 8, 2009 at 1:48 pm
I WILL, Zee. Oh. I will.
=D
October 8, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Your offering of soothing words and Venn diagrams pleases the Internet.
October 8, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Woo hoo! Venn woulda killed it on GraphJam.
October 8, 2009 at 1:52 pm
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October 8, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Congrats J – sounds like a really fun gig!
October 8, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Thanks, M! =) Hope you’ll pop on sometime. After you take your DOGS for a walk. Those poor goggies.
October 8, 2009 at 2:29 pm
You’re made of lime Jello.
October 8, 2009 at 5:12 pm
DINGDINGDING! We have a winner in the Dadaist/Surrealist category! Big round of applause for Warren, everybody.
October 8, 2009 at 2:41 pm
I’m in TinyChat right now. http://tinychat.com/mashableprivate221
October 8, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Is funner ‘n a barrel of monkeys on a Thursday night, no?
October 8, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Congrats Jolie! It sounds like something right up your alley that you will truly excel at. Can’t wait to see where the company goes with your involvement!!
October 8, 2009 at 5:13 pm
I appreciate your saying so, Micah. Hope all’s well.
October 10, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Im doing fantastic! Well, except for a few unanswered emails…
October 9, 2009 at 9:48 am
What can I say. I’m not surprised. You continue to rock. And Tinychat is lucky to have you. Everyone should be so lucky to have some Jolie O’Dell in their lives.
October 9, 2009 at 11:36 am
Awww, thank you, Steve! I so appreciate you giving me my start. =) Hope I get to see you again soon. It’s been much, much too long.
October 9, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Hey, neat!
Awesome Jolie
Congrats!
October 9, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Thanks, Holden! Hope to see you online soon… new features coming aaaany second now!
October 12, 2009 at 6:08 am
congrats Jolie! i must check out tinychat
October 12, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Dude, that’s eleventy-seven different flavors of awesomesauce. Congrats, kiddo!
October 19, 2009 at 7:21 am
hello i like very much tinychat but i think it s missing some basics feature
1- a modulation meter for each brodcaster that exists in most of flash video client
2- possibility to cut video without cuting sound for people with bad bandwith on each broadcaster
3- in the main page possiblity to sort rooms by criterias language , amount of connected people
regards for all readers JM
October 20, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Damn Jolie, you’re freakin hot… Can’t wait to run into you on tinychat!
October 20, 2009 at 11:29 pm
Wow, you have your work cut out for you. I signed up as a Pro Member, but there are no options to unsubscribe and stop payments. I don’t even have the Pro Member benefits. The support email fails to respond except to say “we’ve got your message”, and the email address given on paypal bounces back. Fail. Oh, and I’ve emailed you, but you haven’t responded.
Is this an isolated problem, or are all your customers having this problem? A quick search seems to indicate there are lots and lots of problems.
October 24, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Hi Jolie… does this mean that there is now someone on the inside of TinyChat who will listen and respond? You?
You see, tinychat is fun and all for casual stuff, but I’m a consultant, and I need to communicate with people all over the world. I can read the reviews about the pro site, and I am guessing that just keeping the
mobmany fine clients who are now using the free service happy, and coping with tinychat’s runaway success, means that things are kinda languishing over at the pro service desk.So, I’m not going for the pro service because it is outrageously expensive, of unknown quality, and unlike the free service, it does not seem to be drop-dead easy for my clients. That’s a must! Many are not geeks, they are not young, some have such old computers I suspect there is a hand crank, and likely they type with one finger. Tinychat works pretty well as it is, even for them, except for the horror of the home page. (Sorry, but for professional use, that home page does not work.)
So, let me suggest a small easy-to-implement paid service that I would like… and, I think, so would lots of people in my position.
For a SMALL sum, say $3/month, give me some code to embed a tinychat chatroom in MY web page. The page would be my design (and the $3 means no ads!), and I may decide it is either public or private. I wouldn’t even need an exclusive chatroom name(s), but that might be a nice added value to offer.
Oh yes, I can do that now… but when I invite someone to my chat, and they copy the code to come into to my chatroom, they actually go to the ugly tinychat.com site with the ads. I want them to come to my URL with the chatroom embedded in my graphics.
I know that the $3 does not sound like much… but I bet tinychat would have a ton of sign-ups. It’d be very low maintenance, and has the potential to go viral. How about a tinychat chatroom plugin for WordPress? And so forth.
Thanks for reading & best wishes… twitter: /RobertB and /ResultsG and web site: http://ballantyne.com