{"id":581,"date":"2006-02-13T20:30:35","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T01:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=581"},"modified":"2006-02-16T21:33:32","modified_gmt":"2006-02-17T02:33:32","slug":"tiny-bubbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2006\/02\/13\/tiny-bubbles\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny bubbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just been chatting over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3bubbles.com\/blog\">3Bubbles.com<\/a> in their new Ajax chat app.   It looks like a good start.  With <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeremie_Miller\">Jeremie Miller<\/a> involved, it should have some legs, and they seem to have some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2006\/02\/10\/preview-of-3bubbles\/\">buzz support<\/a> from the valley VC forces.  I wrote pretty well exactly the same app in 2002 and called it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogchat.com\">BlogChat<\/a>.  It has many more features and <a href=\"http:\/\/tim.blog.kosmo.com\/\">Tim Aiello<\/a> and I have been running it as a side project for four years now. <\/p>\n<p>My experience tells me that most people don&#8217;t care beyond the first week have a chat in their blog, but then again, 7 years of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/rs\"> Remote Scripting advocacy<\/a> on my part told me that nobody cared about building rich web UIs with asynchronous javascript calls, and then along came <a href=\"http:\/\/adaptivepath.com\/publications\/essays\/archives\/000385.php\">Jesse<\/a> to prove me wrong.  It&#8217;s all about marketing and being in the right place (Bay Area) at the right time (Web 2.0\/Ajax hypefest).<\/p>\n<p>Good luck, guys &#8211; really.  I know what it takes to launch and you&#8217;ve come a long way.  It&#8217;s a bit like pregnancy and childbirth &#8211; just when you&#8217;ve finally got to the release milestone, you realize you&#8217;re only at the beginning and what a long slog you have ahead of you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/blog%20chat\" rel=\"tag\">Blog Chat<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just been chatting over at 3Bubbles.com in their new Ajax chat app. It looks like a good start. With Jeremie Miller involved, it should have some legs, and they seem to have some buzz support from the valley VC forces. I wrote pretty well exactly the same app in 2002 and called it BlogChat. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ajax","category-blogchat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}