While this sounds like a neat idea, it's sort of annoying that people keep posting sites that don't do anything. I don't want to sign up for a newsletter and be notified/spammed later. I want to mess with it now. That's why I clicked on the link. This seems to be super common on HN these days and it drives me up a wall. I get excited by something in the headline and get let down by the lack of content. Am I alone in this? Why do people keep doing it?
Sorry about that. I understand perfectly, and I hesitated before posting.
But the feedback I can get from the HN community is so valuable that I am willing to take the risk of annoying people. It's a completely selfish attitude, I know.
In all fairness, the title does say beta sign-up.
They should offer a "listen in on a conference" mode. I don't have many questions to ask, but it would be nice to be in like a Q-A type of situation with this.
Or have an option that both parties would agree to to save and archive the chat?
Tinychat would be much more simple for this- Check it out
OpenTok is another good potential service provider that's very customizable/programmable
I didn't know about OpenTok, it looks very interesting, thanks!
Thanks for the suggestion. It says "Skype" so that people understand the concept quickly, but the site won't hold you down to any specific way of communicating.