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Author: Valeriy Diatchenko Last Update: Dec 10, 2008 - Added capability to make phone calls. About: I created this utility mainly as an experiment to see how far a chat client can be pushed in the fun factor. The inspiration for this was, believe it or not - mobile phones. I noticed a lot of people liked having a phone/music player combination. In this application, I reused the concept to blend what I believe are natural siblings: chat, draw and call. Chatting and drawing are both visual interactions, and are used in this project to achieve a higher level of the fun-factor of online chatting. This application can also be easily used in a business environment such as a conference, where people can share diagrams or graphs and immediately draw on them to highlight their ideas. And here, a buddy phone dialer also fits in. How It Works: When the application starts, the user is asked to log in using the normal AIM login page. After this is done, her user-name can be used to send and receive text and draw messages in a special format. In addition, the user can login to the Caller application, and make phone calls to buddies. The rest of the work is handled by the Javascript, which gracefully takes care of the user interface actions, and communication. Technologies: AJAX, Flex, PHP. |
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