ChatMaker - Create your own free online chat rooms

Posted on January 23, 2008 at 7:22 am

I remember back in the days when just about everyone you knew was in some kind of weird AOL chat room talking about crap with a bunch of random people from all over the world! Unfortunately for AOL, people started moving to more feature rich IM chat applications like Yahoo, MSN Messenger, etc.

However, you can’t create a chat room with a bunch of random people in Yahoo like you were able to do in AOL (not AIM). Most people prefer to just chat with their friends or family anyway, so it’s really no longer necessary to have “public” chat rooms unless you’re just looking to meet new people.

The problem that can occur with IM programs like AIM, Yahoo, MSN, and GTalk is that you can’t chat with everyone at the same time. You might have a couple of friends on one and some others on a different platform. You can use an online service like Meebo to login into all of your chat programs at once, but if you want someone random to join it, they have to first join Meebo and create an account for the IM program.

ChatMaker is a free online service where you can create your own virtual chat room that anyone can join WITHOUT having to be logged into ANY IM chat program! It’s basically a chat room in a browser window!

It’s super simple and yet so useful! It’s great if I have a couple of office colleagues in different parts of the country that I want to quickly pass an idea to, I can create a chat room and send them the link to the chat room! That’s it. Everyone can now talk together with only the need for a browser.

So if my office computer does not allow me to install Yahoo, MSN, etc or they are blocked by the company firewall, etc, ChatMaker allows you to create a chat room that requires none of those services! As long as you can browse the web and send a link, you can chat with anyone!

Just give your chat room a name, copy the URL for the chat room, and send it off to anyone you want to join:

Your chat room looks like any other normal chat room with the users online at the right and the chat box on the left. Of course, you don’t get to pick really nice names for your chat ID’s, so you’ll have to live with names like Guest4615, etc, etc. I hope that eventually they allow you to pick any chat name when you create a room, it seems like it should not be that hard since it’s all just temporary.

You can also click on Window to pop out the chat into a separate window. You can close the browser window and still chat in the popup, which is nice if you want to shrink it down so it takes up less space.

There’s really nothing else to ChatMaker, but it’s definitely a cool service that can be useful in some occasions. Enjoy!

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5 Responses to “ChatMaker - Create your own free online chat rooms”

Dee Dee M Scott said on : July 30th, 2008 at 10:28 am

I think this is a great ideal! This will be very successful. Thanks!I needed to have a chatroom for my bookclub to meet in and disccuss our book selection of the month,but I was having a hard time. And then I saw your add and tried it out. It was awesome! However,I do have three questions. How do you erase the chatroom when you’re finished? How long will the chatroom remain active after you create it?How many people can chat at one time?
Thanks again
Sincerly
Dee Dee M Scott