Firefly: Chat With Visitors of Your Site in Real Time
Firefly is a new web app which lets you chat with the visitors of your blog or website in real time. It gives you a javascript code which can be embedded in your website and set it up in the Firefly admin area. Once it’s done, you will get a small horizontal firefly bar in the bottom right corner of your webpage which updates in real time with the number of people on your site and the number of people talking.
You can chat with maximum 50 visitors at a time. Visitors can type anywhere on the site and chat among themselves. If you are a visitor on a firefly enabled site then you can start chatting directly without the need to install anything.
Overall, this is certainly a nice concept and introduces a new way of spontaneous communication and interaction with the readers of your blog. You can get feedback from your site visitors directly without any time delay. Moreover even your site visitors get to interact with each other and talk about your site.
Check out Firefly @ www.firef.ly (Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)
Wow, that is pretty cool! Another free tool, that has a similar focus, but is more geared towards letting visitors chat with the website owner is http://www.hab.la. You just drop some javascript onto your website and get a little chat window that looks a lot like the widget in gmail.