I’m planning to host another Live Blog / Live Chat, my first since Selection Sunday (and first since the new blog launched), this Saturday at 1:30 PM MDT — kickoff time for USC and Notre Dame football — and I did a bit of poking around this weekend, exploring live-chat alternatives to Chatroll. I found a nifty option called SavorChat, which allows you to log on through either Facebook or Twitter, and participate in a cross-platform chat window that’s newly embeddable. Initial testing revealed occasional bugginess in the embedded interface, though, so I’m curious how it works for y’all. There’s an example below — play around, and chat away!
I’m also curious how many folks, who would otherwise have participated in the chat, will decline to do so (either this Saturday, or in future Living Room Times live blog/chats generally) because they don’t have a Facebook or Twitter account, and aren’t willing to create one (presumably on the Twitter side) just to chat on my blog. If you fall into this category, please let me know in comments (or via email at irishtrojan [at] gmail.com). More generally, if you have any comments about SavorChat, any thoughts on advantages or disadvantages vs. Chatroll, or any suggestions about other embeddable chat alternatives, please let me know!
Anyway, without further ado, here’s the chat window…