Weezu - chat on every web-page

By Vivek | December 27th, 2006 at 11:25 am ET         

Weezu is another startup offering chat services for users located on a web page. Earlier I had written about inCircles widget based messaging platform and Netscape’s use of Userplane to provide similar chat services. Besides these we also have Me.dium, which is currently in private beta mode, offering a Firefox extension to enable communication on a particular or similar webpage.

 Weezu, which is available in Spanish and English version, is currently works only on IE. After installing, the app comes up as a chat bar at the bottom of the browser window. Weezu automatically detects others users located on the page you are visiting and loads their avatar. You can just click on the avatar to start chatting.

As for the privacy part, Weezu does claim that it does not collect IP addresses of places you have logged in from and neither does it keep track of your visits. Personally I feel that Weezu or Me.dium users still face the risk of their browsing history data getting exposed some day. As compared to that, using inCircles and Userplane can potentially save users from this risk since these services are provided by the website/blog owners.

Services like Weezu and Me.dium can easily monetize their traffic by integrating contextual advertising related to the sites users are visiting. Also the stats of users hitting a web-page as a new story goes around can be very insightful. From the feature perspective I think Weezu users should have the ability maintain buddy lists and checkout the pages being viewed by their friends.

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