Chat Trumps Meetings

zachholman.com

20 pointsrsobers7 comments

What trumps Chat? Visual Chat! :) We are trying to accomplish that with Mural.ly

Huh? Who on earth wants to see the ugly mugs of their coworkers when talking about work...?!

No visuals = big advantage of chat (in this usage).

He isn't talking about video chat but visual chat. Check out the link to his startup that he mentioned to get a better idea.

Hmm, the concept seems reasonable, but that website is very broken:

1. first, crappy browser detection [I'm running firefox, but it thinks I'm not], displays big "you can't really use this site" page

2. I override user agent, site properly displays home page with video and big red "sign up" button

3. click on big red button to sign up for free beta thing

4. click on google signup, then "ok" to google popup

5. error message from beta.mural.ly/signup: "The page cannot be displayed because an internal server error has occurred."

6. try to use back arrows, then just entering "beta.mural.ly" URL directly to start over (maybe I'll try non-google sign up...)

7. both actions simply redirect me to beta.mural.ly/signup again, which immediately displays the server error again

8. goto 5.

I'd love to know what chat server they use at GitHub.

Oh, good to know, thanks!