i need to have a conversation with a couple people.
there's email, but i get pretty sick of the copied text that quickly gets out of control, the unnecessary repetition of everyone's signuatures... overlapping responses. and, i get so much crap in my inbox as-is--it can be cumbersome to try and isolate relevant emails and then the important parts of them.
i don't like instant messaging. there are so many clients out there, and, sure there are tools to help them come together, but there are some people that will never use im (i don't blame them, i just haven't had the choice.)
twitter is right out.
then, there's one of my favorites: irc. but, let's face it: it's mostly for nerds.
google wave may be an option... someday. even so, in my experience with the beta so far i'd have to argue that multi-threaded chats are actually less productive.
so, i needed something different.
a slightly different approach
anologue is like comments, meets im, meets irc, meets your favorite paste app, meets instant coffee.
actually, instant coffee sucks.
with anologue you can quickly and easily engage in an anonymous (or not) linear dialogue with any number of people (within reason).
no accounts. no installations. no way?! yes, way!
your "chat room" is created by the time this link loads. invite whoever you want by giving them your unique link, and chat away.
let's make this better, together
perhaps best of all: this is open source. built with php 5.3.1, using the most non-heinous, totally rad lithium framework, couchdb, jquery, a few other scripts as well as some classy, original and established iconography for ui; all coming together for the conversational goodness you're about to experience.
contribute to the core or download the source and setup your own. this one's for you, internets.