chatango group chat board widget

Chatango: Group Chat Board Widget

It been a little while since i wrote about Chatango , and my opinion

about it after revisiting it has not changed,as a concept and as a

specs sheet, it it�s superior to anything in the widget chat crowd

right now, but it still suffers from the same minor but lethal

problems that for some reason it donn�t supports a face to the public,

it has no PR, it has No company Blog, it has sported the same design

for way too long, and don�t have a clear biz model or a goal

statement.

Back when i posted about it, i was cruising the web on da flock

(becuase , and i saw someone in the Meebome chat, i said hello, and i

was replied back, to my surprise, it was one of Chatango�s main

men(alec i think) and we had a little chat about their service.

I remember saying to him that i was concerned now that meebo was

easily going to be at the top spot becuase of the money it had and

their brilliant execution of their service, EVEN if Meebo wat not in

any way superior to what chatango had to offer.

Many think that if you got superior tech then it should be a no

brainer for anyone what service to choose, this is wrong and lethal,

you still need to sell the service, push t, pimp it.. etc.

He seemed very unworried by this, and that there was enough budget and

drive to keep Chatango going for a long time to come leaving clear

that they were not really really into the game, maybe they test

softech and this is a way to do it for something else they develop and

sell.. who knows. but the truth is that chatango could be way way way

better in what they doing wrong, and that is their having absolutely

no Brand Buzz or Drive. Because as i said they don�t even have a

company blog, or a newsletter and they go along with a dated design

and look that makes me think i am still stuck at the nineties(in a

wrong way)

And while they still remain oblivious in their brand image, PR and

goals. their features set got even stronger with the introduction of

their Group Chat Board Widget

That it is not only a embedable (widget) chat, but it also a board in

the same vein of those tagboard and c-box that are so late 20th

century and now really must go away i hope (are you reading this

Efendi!?)

Oh, and put the cherry on the top of it, it also has a landing page,

wich means that it don�t only exist in your blog and inside your

chatango account, it is truly public at all times..

Wich means that obtaining a Chatango Account you can get the Group

Chat Board Widget, without having to put a one on one chat widget in

case you are already on the meebome bandwagon, you can keep that one

to use their social chat network if you want to, since inside a

chatango account you can search for contacts in the same manner you

would expect to do it in friendster with the difference that you get

to chat to them right away or leave them a offline message, that

chatango does support.

And that optionally you can download a desktop message box so you

don�t have to leave a tab online in your account page, besides the

option of reciving notification on your mail when you get new offline

messages.

And with the Group Chat Board Widget you get:

1.-a live chat widget in your blog that let you block and delete

messages.

2.-a extra funtionality that makes it serve as a

tagboard/shoutbox/cbox for offline messaging

3.-A landing page that has your chat in full size mode that lives in

it�s own where chatango account members can get to connect with you

without even visiting your blog

And if you were wondering how it looked like, here it is in all it�s

glory:

[ Steal this | New Group | Full Size ]

It comes with customizable fonts, colors and sizes. truly only lacking

more layout designs.

So, there you have it, now let�s hope they hire a PR Blogger and a

Good Designer to improve their brand now they have more than enough

features to satisfy almost everyone.