Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker are back: The Napster co-founders will launch their social video chat startup Airtime with a press event in New York Tuesday after quietly operating in stealth mode for some months. Here’s what we already know about Airtime. Read more »
How will Merton, the improv piano guy who got famous via Chatroulette, evolve? He tells the crowd at NewTeeVee Live he plans to keep performing live events, interacting with his audience and signing deals with companies that can fund him. Read more »
FaceTime for Mac only came out yesterday, but you can already get weird with it, Chatroulette style. A new app called Facelette, created by developer Zach Holman in about an hour, lets you chat randomly with strangers, on either your compatible iOS device or your Mac. Read more »
Chatroulette relaunched today after a week’s absence with a new front-end design and the disappearance of some recently launched features. The chat service, which once placed the video feeds of chat partners on top of one other, is now de-emphasizing the user’s video screen. Read more »
Chatroulette has been down for the better part of this week, and we still don’t know when and in which for the site is going to return. So why not check out some alternatives? We compiled a list of five that are worth checking out. Read more »
Napster co-founder and early Facebook advisor Sean Parker said there’s an opportunity for Chatroulette to introduce one-to-many video chat as well as a model for user discovery that would help separate more interesting and engaging users from those that expose themselves or very quickly get “nexted.” Read more »
Chatroulette has announced that it is going to take steps against the worst offenders on its service, threatening people who exposed themselves to minors with the police. The site announced it has collected evidence of such incidents, but it didn’t spy on any actual conversations. Read more »
Text chats are nothing new, says Chatroulette founder Andrey Ternowsky. He wants to get rid of them on his site and instead focus entirely on video, even if that kind of telepresence can be awkward at times. The site is currently testing a text-chat-free system. Read more »
Chatroulette introduced new features this week, but the extensive media coverage of the new Channelroulette and Localroulette offerings inevitably led to tons of penis jokes. So what can the site do to succeed? How can it possibly make money, and what needs to be fixed first? Read more »
Chatroulette is now allowing users to chat with others living in the same country or region, and it’s also enabling everyone to start themed channels. These new features could represent a turning point for Chatroulette, which has struggled to deal with users exposing themselves to others. Read more »
Artist duo Eva and Franco Mattes used Chatroulette for a disturbing performance art piece that shows reactions, ranging from horror to ridicule, to a scene set up to resemble a suicide, with a hanging man swinging in the corner of a room in disarray. Read more »
Paltalk is extending the ability for its users to video chat with each other by rolling out a new feature for users to connect with one another. With the addition of a web service dubbed SuperIM, the long-time video chat company will allow its users to […] Read more »
Random Guardian is an app that Guardian developer Chris Thorpe and a colleague came up with after an offhand remark during a Clay Shirky presentation about “ChatRoulette for news.” But while it may be trivial, it taps into a powerful force — a desire for serendipity. Read more »
Apple Races to Strike Content Deals Ahead of iPad Release; the company is still negotiating with media companies for a price cut on TV shows that people can download onto the device. (Wall Street Journal) Disney to Offer Mobile VOD in the U.K.; a new deal […] Read more »
Canoe Moving To Bigger Digs, Plans To Double Staff In 2010; the firm specialized on interactive advertising for cable TV has a hiring plan for 2010 that would roughly double headcount. It had 68 employees at the start of the year and its plan calls for […] Read more »
