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Derrick Feedback

Hi guys

After your recent questions Derrick has some feedback for some of them !

Use the scroll bar to scroll down the questions, and hold your mouse over the question, to see the full question, as some of them go off the edge of the screen.

Woc

IRC Chat

Hi guys

Im sure some of you have heard the term IRC, at some point during your internet lifes, IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat.

IRC was created a long time ago, IRC is actually a protocal (Set of Rules) that allow you to connect to other IRC servers, IRC was probably one of the first chats I ever tryed a long time ago now probably somewhere round about the 90s.

There are many features on IRC far too many to mention on here, but IRC is very flexible and also fast.

You can use IRC via the web or you can access IRC by using a bit of software called a client, then using this client you can connect to other servers, once you have logged onto the server, you can then access a list of channels, or rooms as we would know them on World of Chat.

There are literally 1000s of servers out there, although it is hard to find a good one.

Unfortunately IRC is looks very dated now, it does tend to be very basic looking, with none of fun flash options like it world of chat, or the colorful layout. Also it has problems with bots (robots) on IRC servers, as bots are used to control some features of the chat room, they are also used for other destructive purposes, for example flooding the room with lots of information and causing the server to crash, or most commonly they are used to advertise websites and used to spam.

Also if you have a website with a chat room incorporated into it using IRC, you don’t actually have to visit the website to access the chat room, you can just boot up your client software and connect via there if you know the server names, which is really a major minus point if you are wanting to get lots of visits to your website.

I personally didn’t use IRC much, there are usually lots of people logged on but very few of them actually chat lol, which kind of defeats the object lol, it wasn’t unusual to access a chat room with 50 people init and them all to be idle, and you end up talking to yourself.

Some big chat rooms do still use IRC though, in fact uk chatterbox still uses IRC, it will be interesting to see if they keep using it.

Woc

World of Chat Reviews

Hi there

I have created a page on World of Chat so that people can give their feedback on what they think to world of chat, now i know this might hurt some of you as it means you might actually have to do somthing, but this is a chance for you to help out and get your name in lights !

As you can see

http://www.worldofchat.co.uk/links/index.html

Some people have took their time out to give a review of the site, so it would be helpful if some more people could submit a review.

Woc

New World of Chat Layout

Hi guys

As some of you have noticed i have changed the layout slightly, to try to make the screens seem lighter, there is a reason why ive taken the dark blue off the webpages.

As down the left and right hand side these sections were white and down the middle it was dark blue, well peoples eyes were being drawn to the white sections down the sides of the pages as peoples eyes are naturally drawn to lighter areas, this is obviously a bad thing, as I want people to focus what is on the pages and not down the sides of the pages.

So there is some science to change and I am happy with the overall look, I have darkened the chat room area slightly, as I agree it was a bit too bright.

I know people some people have expressed that they are not keen, this is gonna hurt, but what you have is somthing called RESISTANCE TO CHANGE lol.

Woc

Chat Rooms on TV

Hi guys

Has anyone seem any chat rooms on tele, I have seen the odd mock up chat room on the odd tv program, they usually look really naff lol, there was also a film about computer hacking which was completely terrible lol.

Anyone know of any TV programs or films that have chat rooms on them ?

Woc

Yahoo Chat Update August 2007

Hi there

For those of you people who are obsessed with Yahoo chat (God knows why lol)

Yahoo have updated their official blog

http://blog.messenger.yahoo.com/blog/2007/08/21/chat-rooms-follow-up/

This might throw some light onto the problems they have been experiencing over the last few months, with the modifications of their chat rooms.

Good luck avoiding the bots yahooers lol

Woc

Java Chat Rooms

Hi guys

Java chat rooms have been around a long time now, they are usually quite basic chat rooms, java chat rooms have good points and bad points.

Java chat rooms tend to be very flexible and if you know a lot about java, you can customise them to however you like them, also with the option to add other features although this does take some knowledge of java. People often embed these kind of chat rooms into their forums or their websites as they are often easy to set up and maintain.

The problem with java chat rooms is java itself, which you need to keep up to date and normally you have to download the latest version of java to get these chat rooms working, this can be frustrating especially if you didn’t know this before hand, java is a very big program so can also be unstable at times.

Also java chat rooms can be slow to load and tend to be quite bland looking, although they are very fast once the chat room has loaded and are very stable once up and running.

Woc

Flash Chat Rooms

Hi guys

Flash chat rooms have been around for quite as while now, there are many good features about flash chat rooms and very few drawbacks.

Flash chat rooms tend to be colorful and easy to use for the most park, although if you are used to the old style java chat rooms they might well take some time to get the hang of, just simply because they are different.

The main plus points of flash chat rooms is their compatibility, usually you don’t need to download lots of software to get the chat room to work, you will need to have flash player, but most people have this installed onto their pc anyway nowadays as it’s a common browser plug in and if you don’t have it installed its very easy to download. Its also a very stable program that causes very little problems.

Flash chat rooms work well within other browsers also, for example Firefox or Mozilla have no problems displaying flash chat rooms,

The only downpoints to flash chat rooms is the size of the flash window, sometimes the window can be small and elements of flash cannot pass over a normal browser page, the flash elements have to stay within the flash window. Also somtimes depending on what kind of internet connection you have, flash chat rooms can be slow to download, but this isnt a major issue.

This can cause slight problems if you have several different chat windows open at the same time, but isn’t really a major issue, some chat rooms have even managed to resolve this issue, by giving a java enabled private window option as part of their chat, just like world of chat has.

Woc

Second Life – Get a life ?

Hi there

I was watching the TV recently and saw a program about the 3d online game called second life. I was pretty shocked by what I saw and pretty saddened.

Second life is a 3d online world, unfortunately like the real world people are doing everything in their power to take advantage of this world and try to make money out it, by doing some of the following.

Did you know there are virtual land lords on Second life?
Did you know there are people who design furniture and sell it on second life?
Did you know people pay monthly for a virtual apartment or a virtual island or virtual land?

Well all of the above are true, people have designed areas with flats and sold them virtually for their currency linden dollars. To get linden dollars you either have to purchase them with your real money (I don’t think so lol) or get a job and work for them!

Did you know you can get paid to sunbathe on second life?
Did you know you can get paid to dance on second life?
Did you know you can work as an escort on second life?

Unfortunately all of the above are true lol, the world has gone mad, Im sure there are even more examples of jobs and ways people are trying to exploit people online. I’m sure second life is a scammer’s heaven.

It was said these 3 d rooms will take over and the old text chat rooms will close. I don’t think this will happen, I fail to see why people would play in a 3d online world, when there is a big 3d world right outside their window.

Woc

3 d Chat rooms

Hi chatters

I have been surfing the net lately looking at the new chat rooms that seem to be appearing, it seems that 3d chat rooms are all the rage at the moment.

People would like people to think that this is a new thing, well it isn’t there have been 3d chat rooms around for a long time now, there have also been many environments that encompass chat into their platforms, for example online gaming, most online games have a chat section as part of their multiplayer setup.

So why are 3d chat rooms making a comeback, I think its with the new acceleration of hardware on personal computers that makes these kind of chat rooms more available to people. Also with things like second life and World of Warcraft becoming more popular, its become fashionable.

So is it any good ?

No its not, chatting online is a simple process you type a few words on a screen and send it to someone and they reply, its not about 3d graphics and what colour hair your character has.

As a chat platform places like second life and World of Warcraft don’t work, as the main aim of the game is to customize your area and your character people get so caught up in all this, they forget that there are actually other people there.

Woc