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As far as i remember you are not the first to do something like this. I will try to find the other project. You have done a good job but if you wish this to be more than a learn project i suggest you to dedicate some time to the style ;)

Yeah, I'm more coder than graphic designer, certainly. Cheers for looking.

It was called OLark if my memory hasn't failed me. From what I remember it was semi-popular for a while but ultimately died a death of user scarcity as only the most popular websites ever had >1 active user with the program installed. Let me try find the link.... [edit] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=801242

Yeah, that would be the difficulty.

If I get time (have to concentrate mostly on job-hunting for now) I was thinking of doing a "auto-post-to-twitter" to try and pull people outside the conversation in.

Sometime in the 90s there existed a Windows application that added a chat overlay to any webpage. Users had small rectangular icons and could move around the webpage. You could also create a "bus" and drive people around the web.

I don't think OLark is quite dead. They seem to be doing fine.

Hummm, that does look pretty similar, and they're charging a fortune! Weird.

I wouldn't really call Zend "lightweight", I find it to be rather an overkill.. That being said, nice work!

Was this built on the latest stable release or on Zend Framework 2 beta 4?

Latest stable.

And it's lightweight compared to Symfony, which the PHP web framework I'd previously used.

Nice work, Adam.

(Also, long time - how are things?)

Cheers.

Things are good, at least assuming I find a new job at some point soonish.

Im in the same boat, got laid off when the company ran out of money, haven't yet found anything decent.

Good luck!

Let me know if you see anything and I'll grab it first!

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