Rounds says the biggest difference between their app and other video chat platform providers is that it offers online experiences that mimic real-life personal encounters. Users can play with fun webcam effects, collaboratively watch YouTube videos, play multi-user interactive games, draw on whiteboards, send virtual gifts to one another, write texts and browse websites together, all in a single environment. The Rounds platform currently offers over 20 different games and activities. The company also debuted an API (launched in May 2010) that enables third-party developers to create additional games and experiences. To avoid inappropriate behavior using the Random Rounds feature, Rounds says only members with more than 100 friends can use it, usage is restricted to users within the same age group (based on their Facebook profile), and clearly displaying identifying information of other users. Sounds good, until everyone uses their trolling facebook accounts.
One way to keep the cock and nudity from Chatroulette? Link it to your facebook profile. Or at least this might be the idea that Rounds.com might be thinking. Here’s a snippet from TechCrunch:
Rounds says the biggest difference between their app and other video chat platform providers is that it offers online experiences that mimic real-life personal encounters. Users can play with fun webcam effects, collaboratively watch YouTube videos, play multi-user interactive games, draw on whiteboards, send virtual gifts to one another, write texts and browse websites together, all in a single environment. The Rounds platform currently offers over 20 different games and activities. The company also debuted an API (launched in May 2010) that enables third-party developers to create additional games and experiences. To avoid inappropriate behavior using the Random Rounds feature, Rounds says only members with more than 100 friends can use it, usage is restricted to users within the same age group (based on their Facebook profile), and clearly displaying identifying information of other users. Sounds good, until everyone uses their trolling facebook accounts.
One way to keep the cock and nudity from Chatroulette? Link it to your facebook profile. Or at least this might be the idea that Rounds.com might be thinking. Here’s a snippet from TechCrunch:
Been kicked out of Chatroulette? Don’t know why? Well, assuming it wasn’t for nudity or otherwise I think they have a chatroulette algorithm problem. Occasionally I have heard reports of people being blocked from chatroulette for no reason. Here are a few ideas why you might have been kicked: This is just two ideas for why you might have been kicked form chatroulette.com or chatroulette.co.uk (not it doesn’t exist, come here instead).
Idaho Doesn’t Like Chatroulette. Why? Well, you guessed it, the cocks In an article titled: Chatroulette: A disgrace to technology it has been suggested that Chatroulette will end the Internet was we know it. Who knew collective random online nudity could do such a thing. Here’s an excerpt: But, as with any good comic book, action movie or Sherlock Holmes novel, there has to be a bad guy. And in the case of the Internet my dear Watson, it is Chatroulette. If Chatroulette is not stopped the Web as we know it will cease to exist. I don’t think the web will cease to exist. Not any more than 4chan has stopped it existing, or the porn industry, or Justin Beiber. It could be a great viral tool, or if the randomness was reduced, it could be a great way to talk to random people who you probably already like. Not sure if this is in the spirit of the wildness and boundlessness of the internet, but maybe the niche is king. One example from the article suggested sports fans could get together: Imagine a site made up of Idaho Vandal fans. Fans could log-on and talk with other Vandals about last weeks game, or how the team will prep for the off week. Another channel would include Apple fans where discussions can go on for hours about their new technology or what the company is doing. I personally don’t think this would work. Firstly – they would get trolled “big time” – and Secondly: those who have apple products don’t really want to talk to other people who own them. They’d much prefer to talk to someone who does. In the same way, while complaining about the manager is the right (and duty?) of every sport-loving person, I think talking to “just your side” would get a bit boring. Team vs. Team chanting is where it is at – but then, who’d want to do that online? Chatroulette isn’t a bad thing, and it isn’t going to destroy the internet. It’s just got too much cock in it for its own good. Why not check out some of my old posts where I give example of how to deal with cock on Chatroulette.
I noticed the following keyword in Google analytics: why is the screen so small on chatroulette? So I thought I should answer it: The screen is not “so small” – it is now just customizable. The screen size in chatroulette can be changed by grabbing the top-right-hand corner of each chatroulette window and pulling it out. What this is is some fancy css3/html stuff (as far as I am aware). Chatroulette has never been anything but cryptic, there have been points where all tools were removed from the screen and only a since large button was available. The “chatroulette spacebar” was quickly replaced. We used to “play” chatroulette. The button you clicked to start in chatroulette was “play” – now it is “scan”. I think this more accurately reflects the way people use chatroulette – scanning the social space (not focusing too hard, as you’re likely to get a cock in your eye) until you see someone or something interesting. So, to recap: Q. Why is the screen so small on chatroulette? A. Because you have not made it bigger yet!
Looks like education intuitions are cracking down on students using chatroulette:
One night, senior Kate Merkel and two of her friends decided to check out “Chatroulette,” a website that allows visitors to randomly chat with other site visitors. But two nights later, she couldn’t log on. She tried several different computers, and had the same result each time – a white screen popped up saying she was temporarily denied access to the address. “I pretty much left it at that,” Merkel said. “It was probably for the better.” http://media.www.thedepauw.com/media/storage/paper912/news/2010/09/24/News/University.Web.Policy.No.Holds.Barred-3936113.shtml
The best conversations I’ve had on chatroulette were with students (who else has enough to time waste eh?) – if other universities start blacking chatroulette are we likely to see a cut off of intelligent contributors? Although it might get rid of the screaming, whooping groups of fratboys which tend to destroy your headphones!
Apparently it is no.1 in France:
The Chatroulette website is often used the night in France. Like Chatroulette is free is very easy to connect to found someone to speak. The Chatroulette concept found the public and nobody can say when a new website will most popular than Chatroulette. In few months Chatroulette surprise lot of company.
According to some random chatroulette spam!
