JabBox First Look
Ever wanted to talk to your site’s visitors? This weekend, I spent ~20 hours working on a side project called JabBox (working title). I thought it would only take me 8.
JabBox is a thing you can put in any website to enable live-chatting with your visitors.
I built it using jQuery and AJAX on the front end, a socket-based bridge on the backend which connects to an opensource Jabber server. Plus some magic in between.
(I didn’t realize that the name TokBox is taken… hence JabBox)
The beauty is that it will be free, and will allow connections to any Jabber client on the site-owners end. The front end can work on any regular browser without the need for a JavaVM or Flash and it is fully customizable — so it can integrate into any site’s design.
I feel like this is a big deal — I can’t wait to release the first version to the public as part of our proposed Well.ca R&D Labs initiative.
Here is a picture of it in action:
Contact me for more information. More soon. Let me know what you think of this idea.
February 12th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
That is awesome. :)
When you want to release this?
February 14th, 2008 at 1:06 am
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March 12th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
it seems like e very good web site but my English is not good. It would be great if it might be availible in other languages too. Thanks.
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