IM Blocked at Work? Create Your Own Chatroom!

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We’ve previously talked about my favourite web-based IM Meebo as a workaround to IM clients being blocked at work.  Now here’s the thing…Meebo has become so popular that it has become a victim of its own success, with many IT departments now adding this to their list of websites to block.

ChatMaker is the quick and dirty workaround which allows you to instantly create an IM chatroom.

Just…

  1. Give your chatroom a name (one as unique as possible to avoid unwanted visitors), and then a URL will be given to you. 
  2. Pass that URL to your friends. When they click on the link - They’ll be taken to your chatroom. It’s as simple as that.

Everything is run in AJAX which basically means you don’t have to refresh the page.

The best part - No registration required by you, or your other friends who join the chatroom. 

What other ways do you Instant Message?  Tell us in the comments!

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    1. xin said,

      on January 26th, 2008 at 11:18 pm

      sounds quite cool. I hope it won’t be blacklisted by company so soon. =/

    2. kimblhakyi said,

      on August 5th, 2008 at 12:24 am

      hello, my name is kimblhakyi. I think this is a quite extroidanary website. However I love the idea of being able to work and at the same time IM co-workers, friends, and family memebers. I will be sure to try this!!!!! It’ll give me time to IM my wife and meet her needs she is pregnat after all.

    3. frank said,

      on August 12th, 2008 at 2:01 am

      how can u do this? it sounds pretty cool. but i have no idea how to do it.

    4. James Yeang said,

      on August 12th, 2008 at 7:46 am

      @frank - just visit chatmaker and run from there :)

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