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Chat Room Update

Hi guys

As some of you may have noticed there have been a few upgrades to the chat rooms, we are going to be making a lot more over the coming months, I wont spoil them by telling you what they are yet lol !

You should now notice people who are registered with the chat and not registered have a different colour !

Also you can upload pictures into the chat room now, which might make it easier for people to share pics.

There are going to be a few upgrades over the next month or so, so keep your eyes peeled.

Please note the edit profile feature isnt working at the moment.

Woc

Iphone chat rooms

Hi guys

As soem of you have probably noticed we not have support for Iphones and Ipod touch.

http://www.worldofchat.co.uk/iphonechatrooms.html

The chat is easy to use and works perfectly well with all versions of the Iphone and Ipod Touch.

So if you want to get access to the chat room when your out and about with your Iphone just log onto our homepage and click on the Iphone chat scree, you will be able to log in with your current username and password.

Please let me know what you think to our new Iphone chat as all feedback is welcome.

Woc

Voice Chat !

Hi guys

As some of you might have noticed we now have voice chat on our webcam chat rooms, this gives people the opportunity to use their microphones in the chat room, if you dont have a webcam.

We have the opportunity to use broadcast too so people can hear the music your playing via your mic, we are still playing with the new voice chat settings, so it should be interesting to see how it works.

Anyone any questions about this please let me know

Orange Chat Closes

Hi guys

Just thought I would just write another quick post as another one of the large chat sites bites the dust.

Orange chat or previously Freeserve and Wannado chat, has been closed down.

It seems they have major spamming problems and to improve the site would have cost a considerable amount of money they were not prepared to spend

Orange Chat RIP

Woc

Chat room App & Shoutbox

Hi guys

Ive created a new chat app that can be used as a shoutbox on webpages like bebo, myspace and wocchat.

Can also be using on other websites like wordpress blogs etc the app is located at the link below

http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/chat-box-shoutbox-usearchme

Woc

Webcam Chat Rooms on World of Chat

Hi guys

We have had the web-cam chat rooms for a while now, I just thought I would write something about them on my blog.

If the webcam users can please stick to the watershed rule that would be great !

Also web-cam users could make it easier for admin by not letting people view your webcam, unless they have a webcam too !

As this doesnt encourage these users to get their own cams or indeed turn their webcam on and some of these users indeed badger other users to see their cam.

Ask users without cams to put their webcam on, and then you will let them view your webcam.

If you do deny someone, it will constantly refuse the user, until you close the chat and reload that chat.

If you do have problems with anyone in the cam rooms or problems with your cam then please post on the forums.

Woc

Wocs Chat Toolbar

Hi guys

As some of you may know we have a new toolbar, if you want to support our site you can help by downloading this, also if you think of anything that can be added please let me know !

Woc

Chat Room Upgrade

Hi guys

There is probably going to be a chat room update next week sometime, this is going to tackle some of the current problems we are starting to have with the chat room.

With people just sitting in the room and private messaging everyone in the room, these are all problems we are aware of and are open to ideas that will help resolve this issue!

Woc

Noesis Chat

Hi guys

It seems that lycos chat is indeed closing on the 1st only to become Noesis chat !

Dear User,

We are delighted to inform you that we have successfully reached an agreement with Noesis Systems Ltd. for continuation of the existing chat service.

You may have heard that our parent company LYCOS Europe N.V. has decided to discontinue many of its services.

The Chat business is one of the services which are scheduled to be discontinued by LYCOS. For this reason we will be terminating your LYCOS Chat contract on 1.3.2009.

Should you wish to continue using the existing product with the new provider, you will be asked to sign new Terms and Conditions when you sign on the chat.
As part of this agreement, your existing chatname and account content, for example your Logbook Messages and photos will remain.

Should you not accept the Terms and Conditions for the new provider by 1.3.2009, we will close your account and delete all of the content and access rights stored in connection with your Chat account, based on the statutory specifications.

Yours sincerely,
the LYCOS Chat Team

So it seems users are going to have to accept new terms and conditions, it doesnt say if the urls are going to change though, as the urls all point to yahoo chat, it should be interesting to see what happens on the 1st of Feb.

Woc

Lycos Chat Closing ?

Hi there

Its been on the grape-vine for a while now that Lycos chat could well close,  it does appear in statements made by Lycos a lot of Lycos services will stop Feb 1st., including forums and message boards. 

Even tripod is going which gave web sites free hosting, which takes me back to the days of designing my first website, it was crap but it was free lol !

Having looked at lycos chat Ive noticed a different name has appeared on the site, so I am unsure as to if someone else has purchased the chat rooms.  So it may well continue for the time being

Lycos chat is somewhat dated now, and hasn’t been updated for many years, so its little surprise it may well close, a lot of lycos services have suffered from the same problem, little change and little innovation.

Will be interesting to see what happens on Feb 1st as Lycos was one of the big hitters at one point.

Woc