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    Tinychat Videoconferencing Review Discussion

    Discussion in 'Notebook News and Reviews' started by Dustin Sklavos, Feb 18, 2010.

  1. Dustin Sklavos

    Dustin Sklavos Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    By Dustin Sklavos

    Tinychat takes videoconferencing back to the chatroom days of the ancient 1990s. Is this a welcome splash of retrofuturism, or just a design concept well past its prime? We break it down in this review.

    Now personally, I haven't been in a chat room since we got rid of America Online all those years ago. Maybe I'm out of touch with the young people and what's hip these days, but I don't know that chat rooms are all the rage these days like they were when I was a teenager (so, so long ago). Yet Tinychat is built pretty much entirely around the idea of the chat room.

    If the scrolling images on the front page are to be believed, Tinychat is home to a lot of young, hip people, usin' chat rooms and talking about makeup, boys, and whatever hippity-hop is playing on the radio these days. Kids still listen to the radio, right? I'll give up the schtick and move on, but the point is that Tinychat positions itself as another social medium not at all unlike Tokbox.



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    Dustin you should check out skype it is free and just works
     
    camtheham, Sep 1, 2010
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