Html Chat Service Over a Chat Software

Nowadays, we have become accustomed to chat software and utilizing its function to communicate with others. With so many options to fulfill our needs for online conversation, we somehow take this technology for granted. However, let us take a break for a minute and reflect on the technology that has been our friend for more than 30 years. How it evolved over time and how we have a better option with chat service instead of software now.

The Predecessor of Chat Software

Early in the birth of communication technology that now become the Internet, there is a program worthy of mentioning as the ancestor of chat software. The program was a UNIX program called Talk. Talk was a text chat program and it is outdated compared to other chat rooms today. However, Apple OSX Darwin, which is based on BSD-Unix still uses this talk program, also other UNIX variants like Linux and FreeBSD. As a very basic chat program, talk only allow users in UNIX and UNIX-variant systems to chat with other users with one-on-one chat.

The more advanced chat program was built for educational purposes. Talkomatic, from the University of Illinois computer-assisted learning system in 1973, was the first program built as a chat room. Although it has only limited capability to have a maximum of five users in the chat room, this program sets a breakthrough for chat technology. It provided a replica of what a chat software should have in terms of features and functions like a group chat, chatroom, and message broadcast.

The Next Generation of Chat Software

Internet Relay Chat or IRC in 1988 was developed to supersede talk programs in UNIX. Since its inception, IRC was developed as an application protocol in the TCP/IP suite to provide a universal protocol for text communication Its role as a protocol allowed programmers to write a chat client software to run on top it. Some of the well-known IRC client software were mIRC, ChatZilla, and IceChat.

One of achievements with IRC protocol is its advanced capability to handle group conversations and forums as channels.  IRC had a more advanced way that the University of Illinois’ Talkomatic in that matter. For that reason, IRC became a common method of online conversation before the instant messaging chat room came.

Arrival of Instant Messaging System

The instant messaging system is another chat software that arrived later with more advanced technology than IRC. ICQ was the first instant messenger available in 1996. Its approach in providing a unique user ID for each user has become the model for today’s chat platform and social media applications.

Following the footsteps of ICQ, American Online created its own chat program and decided to buy ICQ and perfect its instant messenger with ICQ technology. From then on, numerous instant messaging chat software came from many companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Blackberry, Yahoo, eBuddy and many others. We are now able to have audio, video, and multi-media conversations in chat technology. However, it makes the chat program become bigger and consumes much more resources than a simple text chat program….
Apart from that, we need a multimedia chat. How can we find a better one?

Replacing Chat Software with Chat Service

After a long of online chat program, we are now reaching the ceiling of chat software. All installed chat program has to be constantly updated whenever there is a new patch or new version. This takes a lot of time to update our chat programs.  Sometimes when we are about to have an important conversation, HTML chat software prompts an update message, requiring us to update the program. We need a better solution for this exhausting process of continuous updating. Isn’t it time for new technology to come forward to supplant the html chat software?

html chat software in the cloud

The time is right now for a chat service on your web or your mobile device.
Traditional chat program has its own drawbacks of installation on our computer. It takes up our computing resources: hard drive, memory, and processor to allow it to run. A lot of processes are conducted in our computer to run the chat program, which most of the time stays dormant as a memory resident program. While we need to free up those resources.

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HTML Chat service provides the answer to that hassle and bustle.
We just need a browser and access to a website providing the chat service. All the installation, update, and security issues is handled by the chat service provider’s company beforehand.

With html chat service, if you have your own website you can have a chat room on your website. Just use a snippet or a piece of code given to a chat service provider on your website, and you can have your own chat room. Chat service provider gives you that code once you register for their service. The code acts as a client program running on your website. While chat service provider takes care of all the internal processes like message synchronization, privacy, security, and others.

If you do not have a website, you are still able to have a chat room. You can have it on your Facebook fan page, or you can have a service provider to host your chatroom. Since you have subscribed to their service, html chat service provider will be responsible for your chatroom security and privacy. That is how simple and easy chat service cater to your chat needs.

Boutique Group Chat for Internet Radio Station

Internet radio is booming!
Since 2008, the number of people listens to Internet radio is growing significantly. A year before, in 2007, traditional AM/FM radio audience was declining, based on Arbitron research company, who becomes Nielsen Audio today. Another research by Triton Digital shows that last year, in 2014, almost half of 124 million people in America listen to Internet radio, to be exact the number is 47%.

With the growing number of audiences, here comes the question, how can we create a better experience for our audiences?
Based on the data from two most respective research companies: Triton and Nielsen Audio, we really have to consider Internet radio station as a serious digital media to convey message.  The power of Internet radio is in its casual listening experience, that enable people listen to online radio while they doing other activities. We have discussed how radio chat room is able to create a better experience for radio station. Availability of chat for Internet radio station will create a very interactive way of old-fashioned phone and conversation between radio DJ and audience.

Chat for Internet Radio Station and Its Audience

The staggering number of Internet radio audience is really something to be taken seriously by radio station operated on the Internet. Within 4 years, from 2010 to 2014, the number of online radio audience has increased 20% and most of them are listening the radio in their smart phone or desktop computer/laptop. Surprisingly, majority of Internet radio audiences come from 12-24 years age group, the age group whose preferences can change within second and they can easily switch channel. For this age group, radio station must be able to catch their attention to make them keep listening to the station without switching channel.

It is important for radio station to engage audiences more actively, one of which is to invite them in giving their feedback or create an online conversation. We have seen in the previous article  of what RumbleTalk chat for internet radio is capable of in energizing a live event.  Actually, html chat platform provides the most convenient way for both radio station and audience to communicate and interact.
Why?

Stylish look - A Chat for internet radio
Stylish look – A Chat for internet radio

Synced Chat for Internet Radio Station

The number one reason is its easy installation. A chat room should not need a complicated setup in your Internet radio station website. Our infrastructure provide the best of Internet chat platform available today. With an HTML5 technology, we have the most powerful chat technology, you can embed chat in any where you want and it will fit right to the space you allocated.

The most time consuming activity to register to a new service is the registration process. Users will just left the service when they found out the service requires a complicated registration. That will not happen when chat platform has social media integration . Users can login to your chat using their existing Facebook or Twitter account. With more than a billion of users, Facebook is just like an Internet ID for everyone. So, when chat platform is installed in your website or Facebook page, your audiences can join the chat using their Facebook account.
Very simple and easy…

The other important thing is multiplicity.
One distinctive feature of html web chat platform is synced (synchronized) chat room.  Chat for Internet radio can put the same chat room in both web page and Facebook page, and messages posted in different place synced automatically across all chat rooms. This gives wider audience opportunity to chat in a multi channel. With this synced feature, people who go in web page chat room will be able to communicate with those who enter Facebook page chat room, as if they are in the same chat room.

What is Better for Internet Radio Station?

We have to admit there is none better than online dialogue solution for Internet radio station. It is the best way to engage audience in the 12-24 age group than opening multiple channel.  We already know the type of anxiety disorder affecting this age group called FoMO (Fear of Missing Out).

People who struggle with FoMO are wrestling to balance the peer pressure with their self-actualization.  Helping them by giving choice so they can chose something based on their personal preferences is the least radio station can do to help them to chose something on their own, not based on peer-pressure.

With our synced chat, people only see the other people sending chat in the conversation. They will not be able to know whether the other parties are sending message from Facebook page chat or from another website. They can only see that there are other parties participating in the chat room.

This synced chat is also providing great benefit for radio station. They can install the same chat room in multiple places:  Facebook pages, their websites and also their partner website with ease, because knowing all the chat room will be treated as one chat room with html chat platform.

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Creating Interactive Live Event Chat

Live event entertainment has been around in human being daily for centuries. We, human being are enjoying live entertainment from the early days of civilization. Watching a horse race, gladiator fight and other forms of entertainment have been our way to enjoy live since a long time ago.
As civilization grow more advanced, live entertainment become more and more improved. With today’s technology, live event chat can even be possible to create a highly interactive live event.

What is Live Event Chat?

Live event chat is a technology where remote audience and viewers can interact with the event held by the organizer and broadcasted over the television or multimedia channel. Television industry has been the relying on the live event for some time. This is the age of online availability, the era that everything can go online in a matter of second, where information can travel around the world within second.

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Regardless any type of event; music concert, webinar, talk show, radio streaming, all events can use live event chat room (a group chat) to create more attractive event. In 2014, CNBC predicted the future of music concert with social wearables and interactive live shows. On its July 21st article, the author, Everett Rosenfeld quote the event guru regarding the rise of FoMO trend for live event. FoMO, stands for fear of missing out, is a type of anxiety occur in today’s digital age where people have fear of getting out of touch, or absent from social events or experiences that generally a hype among their community or social circle. Such event can be a TV show, some events, gathering or a restaurant, and now FoMO has spread to live event. FoMO induce some pervasive habit in today’s social life, like constantly checking smartphone or gadgets, or anxiety when they did not receive email or message or chat for a couple of minutes.

How Live Event Chat Helps FoMO Anxiety

Social media, mobile devices and gadgets have pervasively invaded our private life in a way more than we ever foresee or imagine. FoMO is a phenomenon that affects the 18-34 years of age group or known as teen millennials. Young people in those age group are prone to peer-pressure that can lead to low self esteem. It is because young people will look upon other’s approval for their self value, that makes them caught and struggle with FoMO.

People who struggle with FoMO will receive benefits with availability of live event chat. They will be able to participate in live event, as long as the event is equipped with live event chat room. RumbleTalk chat platform provide such ease and simplicity with the needs for live event chat.

We encourage event organizers to enable RumbleTalk platform in all live events they manage to enable interaction from people with the event. It does not matter what type of event, because as long as the events have chat room for people to interact and show their interest, the event will generate more audience and revenue. The availability of live event chat will benefit both the event organizer and the audiences, because event organizer can grasp the idea for the next event, based on audience participation and their idea during live event chat. While for people who struggle with FoMO, there is no reason for them to feel being left out, because they now can interact with event organizer, performers, host and everyone related to the event through live event chat.

Live Event Chat Enhances Interactivity

In the previous article, we know that RumbleTalk be able to help Radio station increasing their audience and interactivity. The same thing goes to live event as well. Every one of us understand how important for a live event to be interactive. Television broadcast and radio show have been opening phone line to enable direct interaction from audience and viewers with the show. Yet, starting a few years ago, some television talk show started to use Skype for video interaction with their home viewer. The conversation is displayed in the inset on the TV screen for home viewer to be able to watch it as well as studio audience. Now, the technology has advanced to be able to provide more level of interaction with live event chat.

It is because talk show, variety show or another interactive TV shows require more than just a great host and television personalities to lead the event. They need fresh approach and variation, so audience wait and expect something different and more enhancing than just watching a host and invited guest talk on the TV screen.

What is The Best Technology for This?

RumbleTalk provide the technology for talk show to have a live event chat for home viewers to contribute, more than just a phone line or video conference. This will certainly boost number of viewers. Moreover, when the live event chat room is displayed in the inset, the home viewers will increase significantly. By nature, human are narcissist. Therefore, enabling the live event chat in the television broadcast and put the conversation on screen, will encourage viewers to participate. It is because they are definitely eager see their name comes in the TV screen.

With advance HTML5 technology, RumbleTalk chat platform is the best solution for all needs of live event chat. People who participate in chat room will be able to attach their picture or video from YouTube or Vimeo easily. Not only that, we have video chat technology that will enable host to invite home viewer to perform a teleconference with ease. Our video chat requires only a browser, thus minimizing the installation of application in the computer. People who is invited to video chat will be able to chat from their smart phone or tablet with ease. They do not need to stand by in front of their computer just to be able to engage in video chat.

That is how easy for event organizer, TV station and radio station to engage more audience in their live event with RumbleTalk live event chat.
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