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Tinychat
Developer(s)Numerl LLC
Written inMacromedia Flash
Operating systemany
Typevideoconferencing
Websitetinychat.com

Tinychat, is an internet chat service that allows users to communicate via instant messaging, voice and video chat. It offers thousands of chat rooms and the ability for users to create their own virtual chat room on any topic and category.[1] Tinychat is a web based system that works on Linux, Windows and Macintosh as well as some smartphones. The only requirement is to have Macromedia Flash enabled. The chat rooms can contain a rolling maximum of 12 video feeds and dozens of audio feeds at the same time. One can be in several such rooms at the same time. Tinychat, including all of its programs, is owned by Numerl LLC, which is a privately held company founded in 2008 and based in New York City, NY. Tinychat claims 5 million minutes of usage per day, making it one of the largest voice and video chat community in use on the internet today. Tinychat announced on November 16, 2009 the launch of its new service Tinychat.tv, that offers users the ability to live stream any video or show hosted on Tinychat. The service uses Tinychat's API and provides the ability to launch a personalized page and channel for initiating multi-user shows. Tinychat has also announced will not charge any cost for using the bandwidth.[2] Tinychat is particularly popular in the USA African-American and Hispanic communities.

Tinychat announced in February 2010 a service similar to Chatroulette called Tinychat Next. Tinychat Next differs from its competitor with the addition of topic based rooms.[3]

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References

  1. ^ http://lifehacker.com/5272145/tinychat-creates-disposable-multimedia-chat-rooms lifehacker
  2. ^ http://news.softpedia.com/news/Tinychat-Encroaches-Ustream-s-And-Stickam-s-Areas-127232.shtml Softpedia - Tinychat encroaches ustream and stickam.
  3. ^ "TinyChat Launches Grouped Version Of Chatroulette", TechCrunch, February 16, 2010, retrieved 2010-04-05
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