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CometChat, a professional and feature-rich Facebook-like chat application is giving away 3 Basic Edition Licenses ($49/each) to WRD readers where the giveaway will end very soon. You can find the details at the bottom of the post.

Also, they are running a Black Friday discount on their Platinium EditionLicense (for the next 4 days, starting today). Again, details can be found below.

What is CometChat?

CometChat, that was previously shared at WRD, is a PHP-MySQL powered chat system that is similar to the Facebook's chat bar and offers more features.

By default, users can have a conversation in a chat room or talk privately, play games, send each other files, share the page they are visiting, view their chat history and more.

Also, depending on the edition used, it is possible to have more features like instant translation of the conversation, audio/video chat and even screen sharing.

Besides the ability to use it in any custom application, it integrates tightly into popular ones like Boonex, WordPress, Drupal, vBulletin, phpBB and many others.

Details of the Black Friday discount

CometChat is offering a 30% special discount for its full-featured Platinium Edition that will be valid for the next 5 days (29th is the last day).

Just use this link to get the discount: http://www.cometchat.com/buy/black-friday-sale .

How to join the giveaway?

First of all, the giveaway will be active for a short period, starting now. So, act fast!

It is enough to comment to this article in order to join the giveaway, winners will be selected with the query below and they will be announced once the giveaway is over.

SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=1965 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 3

Requirements: PHP & MySQL
Compatibility: All Major Browsers

Holla is an open source group chat application where you can create channels, invite friends to those channels, chat and share files.

It has a totally Ajaxed interface on every level (messaging, uploading files, etc.).

A nice feature is that the file uploads can be done via drag'n drops and every user in the chat can see the upload progress bar.

Holla uses Node.js for the real-time chat and falls back to Comet and Flash Sockets if WebSockets is not supported.

The application is actually a "sample resource" for the upcoming book of the author -which on asynchronous interfaces- and has a demo too.

Requirements: Ruby 1.9.2+, MySQL, Redis, Bundle

Similar to the popular disposible chat websites (check 7 Free Disposable Chat Systems For Instant Communication), Anologue is an impressive one which is open source.

It works by simply clicking on a "new room" link and the application instantly creates a chat room with a unique URL where you can invite others.

The application is totally Ajaxed, built with PHP and uses the Lithium Framework, CouchDB and jQuery.

And, if you don't prefer to install your own, you can still use Anologue as the hosted version is free for everyone.

Requirements: PHP 5.3+, CouchDB, rad-dev account

JsChat is an open source chat script that is built with Ruby (Sinatra), uses a simple protocol based on JSON and comes as a server/client application.

It is similar to IRC but simpler and has very useful features like:

IRC-like commands: /names, /name new_name (/nick works too), /clear, /lastlog
auto-linking: pasting an image displays it inline, Youtube and Vimeo videos will appear as well
last messages are displayed when logged in

Users can "login to" or create multiple chatrooms (and they will be saved when logged out).

And, optionally, users can authenticate with their Twitter profiles.

Requirements: Ruby (and eventmachine, ncurses, json libraries)

CometChat, an impressive in-page chat application that was featured at WRD before, is giving away 3 Basic Edition licenses and 1 Professional Edition license to WebResourcesDepot readers.

Also, they are offering a discount that will be valid for a week, starting today.

The details on joining the giveaway and getting the discount can be found at the bottom of the post. But before that:

What is CometChat?

It is a feature-rich chat application (built with PHP/MySQL) that sits at the footer of a website (Facebook Chat-like) and enables the users of the website to communicate with each other.

The application is compatible with many popular CMS and forum softwares like vBulletin, Joomla (JomSocial & Community Builder), WordPress, phpBB, etc. and can be integrated with any custom membership system.

It comes with a set of very nice features like:

customizable "Who's Online" list (display friends or all online users)
direct chat with multiple users
users can have statuses like available, busy, invisible
new message notification with pop-up and/or audio
support for chat history, avatars, smileys, auto-links and user profiles
users can create chatrooms and send files to each other
bad words filtering
built-in 2 player games (pool, backgammon, checkers, etc.)
and more..

The application can be themed with CSS and extended further with the API provided.

CometChat also has one other feature which adds another interaction level on how the community communicates: video chat support.

Users can invite each other to a video chat and, once accepted, they can chat from a Flash-based interface which works very smooth. (This feature is available in the Platinium Edition).

10% Discount

Every CometChat license can be purchased with a 10% special discount between 4th of May to 10th of May by simply using the link:

http://www.cometchat.com/?ref=wrd and use the coupon code: WRD10OFF.

How to Join The Giveaway?

Like mentioned, CometChat is giving away 3 Basic Edition and one Professional Edition licenses to WebResourcesDepot readers.

In order to win the licenses, you have 2 options where you can do both to increase the chances of winning:

Comment to this post
Tweet about this giveaway with the hashtag #wrdcometchat (To tweet faster, click to: CometChat – In-Page Chat With Video Support – 4 Licenses Giveaway (And Special Discount) )

Winners will be selected randomly on 11th of May (1 week later). Good luck to everyone.

Requirements: PHP and MySQL
Compatibility: All Major Browsers

BigBlueButton is an open source video conferencing application which is specifically built for remote learning but can be used for standard meetings as well.

The application enables multiple users to login & share their webcam or communicate via VOIP at the same time.

It is a very ideal application for presentations as users can upload PDF or office documents & keep everyone in sync with their current page, zoom, pan, mouse pointer etc.

Also, users can share their desktop with others easily.

There are 3 user types:

Presenter: can upload presentations & sharing their desktop
Viewer: have no authority within the conference, can only view & chat with other users
Moderator:can upload presentations, share the desktop & change user types of other users.

Users can raise hands to get the attention of the presenter, mute any other participants they want & chat between themselves in public or privately.

BigBlueButton completely relies on open source technologies & it can be improved further with the API provided.

Requirements: Linux-based Server

iJab is an open source, web-based & Ajaxed instant messenger application that uses the XMPP/Jabber protocol.

It is written in JavaScript, uses Google Gears for clientside storage & supports MSN, AIM or any other XMPP-based services (you can easily create a closed chat group for your community).

iJab has lots of features like:

theme support
new message pop-up notifications
multi-user chat
search users
avatar, smiley support
& much more..

The application has 3 modes: stand-alone application, Facebook-like web chat bar in page & live support

Requirements: No Requirements
Compatibility: All Major Browsers

IntraMessenger is a free application for that enables communication between communities, groups, companies or simply closed groups.

It consists of a client (for Windows) & a PHP-MySQL-based open source server to manage the whole communication.

The messenger is autonomous, but authentication (login + password) is possible from other existing databases like forums, groupware applications, e-learning systems, etc.

It can operate in 2 modes:

open community : everybody can see everybody, without add to contact list
groups only : everybody can see everybody (but only) is they are in the same group

IntraMessenger has a multilingual interface & it is a handy application for enabling web-based communities to communicate in the desktop.

Requirements: PHP-MySQL for the server & Windows OS for the client

There are various ways that most users prefer while communicating via internet. IMs (MSN Messenger, Skype..), social networks (Facebook, Twitter..) & others.

However, there are some situations where all the audience may not have the necessary tools to communicate at the same platforms like a user not having Skype installed or not having a Twitter account.

This is where the disposable chat systems become handy. Whether you will be talking with a client, a teammate or a friend, just a standards compliant browser & an internet connection will be enough.

Here are 7 easy to use & free disposable chat systems (text or video) for an instant communication:

TinyChat

TinyChat is probably the most popular disposable chat application.

It has support for both video & text where both works very nice.

There is also an API to automatically create rooms which is great for integrating it with 3rd party products.

BabelWith.Me

The application offers a quick group chat with a unique feature: it can translate the content from 45 different languages instantly which makes the communication of x number of users not speaking each other's language possible.

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CometChat, a Facebook-style chat script -which enables website users to chat with each other easily- is giving away 2 licenses ($49/each) to WebResourcesDepot readers. Details on "how to join" can be found at the end of the post.

What is CometChat?

It is a PHP / MySQL script for creating a chat environment that can be used while visitors are browsing any page of the website.

Users can select their statuses (like busy, available, invisible or a custom one), "get friends" with each other & see if their friends are online or not.

The interface automatically converts related entries into smileys or well-formatted links & it can notify users with audio messages when a message arrives.

CometChat is multilingual, can be translated to any language & besides the standard icons, new ones can be placed to for a better integration with any website.

The script comes in 2 versions:

standalone: for  integrating it with your existing social networking, dating or community site
vBulletin edition: instant integration with this forum software

How To Win The Free Licenses?

You have 2 options to join the giveaway where you can do both of them to increase the chance of winning:

comment to this post with at least "I want the license" text besides any other comment
ReTweet this message at Twitter: Facebook-Style Chat Application: CometChat (http://www.cometchat.com/) (2 Licenses Giveaway): http://tr.im/r2sU (via @umutm) (click the link to ReTweet easily).

Winners will be selected randomly on 13th July 2009 (1 week later & they can choose whether they want to get the standalone or the vBulletin edition.

Good luck to all.

Requirements: PHP 4.1+, MySQL 4.1+
Compatibility: All Major Browsers