Skabble is a free program that lets you chat with all the other Skabble users that are visiting the same website as you. Skabble also connects
you with people who are browsing similar websites and share your
interests.

Skabble lets you:

* Chat live with other people who are browsing the same or similar website you're on.
* Instant message anyone in the room you're in.
* Chat with your keyboard or talk live with your microphone!
* Add new friends to your contact Skabble contact list.
* Connect with your Skabble friends through audio and video!

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A browser plugin that shows avatars on web pages. With many features like buddy list, games, and an MMOG aspect.

Claim:

"Meet your friends on every site. Play games & find treasures. Enjoy parallel virtual worlds"

"Features...
- own virtual pets
- go on virtual dates
- betting & party games
- quests & treasure hunts"

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A browser plugin that lets you meet people on web pages.

Use BumpIn to ... Discover people with similar interests, browse the Internet with them, chat live with them, make new friends, expand your social network.

BumpIn is primariliy a sidebar. It has a forum like discussions for all web sites, and a Web Widget

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A Javascript/XMPP based chat on a web page with avatars.

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Chat Live on any Web Page... anytime with anybody! Xpanity ChatPanel™ is a real-time chat add-on you can open alongside any page you visit.

The Xpanity Live Chat room allows you to see the other browsers currently on the same web page as you are viewing. It provides you with the opportunity to interact with them on all levels. Receive unbiased opinions about everything you see on the Internet - share your information about stores and products, chat on-line with bloggers you like, chat with friends who share the same interests as you.

Available for IE and Firefox.

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Chatsum is a FREE add-on for your web browser that lets you chat with all the other Chatsum users that are looking at the same website as you.

Chatsum lets you:

* Chat live with other people who are looking at the same website as you!
* Find out what other people think about the websites you're looking at!
* Leave messages on any website you visit!
* Read messages left on websites by other Chatsum users!
* Browse the Chatsum community's favourite websites!
* Hunt for treasure in our unique online treasure hunts!
* Find people that like the same sites as you and then CHAT TO THEM!

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Browz the Web Together

An elaborate social browsing system. Completely web based without any software download. It allows you to see the web pages your friends are currently viewing. It updates in real time. You can choose to follow your friends to join them on a page of interest. So it's for friends browsing together (friends you establish in Browzmi).

From the Browzmi about page:

"What is it?
All your life you've browsed the Internet alone. Now Browzmi makes it possible to web together with your friends. Browzmi is a social browsing network where you can browse the web surrounded by all of your friends and the ability to chat, share, discover and experience the Internet together in real time.

Can my friends see where I am browsing in Browzmi?
You probably don't go to the theater alone to watch movies. You probably don't go to concerts alone to see your favorite bands. Most activities are more fun when you can be there together with friends. Browzmi makes it possible to go to the web with your friends, so you can browse your favorite videos, music, photos, social networks and anywhere on the web as if you were there together. Stop browsing alone.

What's required to use Browzmi?
Browzmi is the first social browsing network that does not require you to download any software. It's 100% web based so that your Browzmi account can be accessed from any computer. Browzmi is currently compatible with Microsoft IE 6.0+ and Firefox 2.0+ web browsers. We have not yet completed our Safari implementation. "

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iosurf - TAKE YOUR FRIENDS WITH YOU

From the iosurf description:

"iosurf is a free software plugin for Internet Explorer that works as a portable chat room and instant messenger allowing you to instantly communicate with other iosurfers anywhere you go on the web.

You’ve been surfing the Internet for years. You go to places like MySpace.com or your favorite free chat rooms to make new friends and search for people who like the same stuff you do. Sure, you have instant messaging – but to find new friends you have to search through chat rooms, communities and Yahoo Groups, and you may not even find anyone there. iosurf was created to end your isolation and make it easy for you to meet like-minded people – no matter where you go online. You can finally find people that are interested in what you are into – you can finally make your own connections, mash up your own groups, and have fun exploring the web! All of this is done automatically with iosurf, and it rides along with you in your Internet Browser as a free software plugin."

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nloose liveblog

From their description:

"Meet different poeple who are surfing the same websites as you at the same time"

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Turning the Browser into a Social Network

From their description:

"The Coop is a Firefox addon in development that will let users keep track of what their friends are doing online, and share new and interesting content with one or more of those friends. It will integrate with popular web services, using their existing data feeds as a transport mechanism. "

"Users will see their friends' faces, and by clicking on them will be able to get a list of that person's recently added Flickr photos, favourite YouTube videos, tagged websites, composed blog posts, updated Facebook status, etc. If a user wants to share something with a friend, they simply drag that thing onto their friend's face. When they receive something from a friend, that friend's face glows to get the user's attention."

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zpeech: discuss any website on any website

From their description:

"You can comment any website on the website itself with zpeech.com"

"With zpeech.com, we are building a platform that enables people to comment any website on any website - freedom of zpeech! By that we want to build a better internet."

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Me.dium Makes Web Browsing Social.

Me.dium is a Firefox extension, which shows the neighborhood of your current web page as a side panel.

From their description:

"Me.dium reveals the hidden world of people and activity behind your browser.

Without having to do anything differently than you normally do, Me.dium shows you your online world and allows you to communicate with friends and others in a natural, contextual manner. It lets you see what else is around you and relevant based on what you’re doing – all in REAL TIME. Just like the way you interact in the real world."

And there is more: see http://me.dium.com/help (needs a login)

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Weblin is our alter ego, our virtual presence on the internet. Weblin is what makes people visible on the internet. With wpeople who are on the same webpage can see and communicate with each other.

In the real world we see people where ever we go: at the bus stop, at school, in the work place, int the shopping mall, at the gym. If we want, can contact them. When we are surfing the Web, there are many other people on the same website at the same time as us. Unfortunately they have been invisible until now. Weblin gives us the opportunity to make ourselves and others visible even beyond single web sites.

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1. A web gadget that allows you to walk around websites as if they were physical locations.

2. To group surf with friends, meet people who visit your favorite websites, and make the internet a far more interesting place.

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Gabbly is a chat service that allows you to chat around any webpage.

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The Community bar adds context-dependent content to the web browsing experience. As a user browses the web, he can see (and leave) notes from other people who visited the same page, chat with other people viewing the same page, tag the page with a bookmark or category label, view all the inlinks to the page, find related pages, perform context-specific search, and see blog postings related to the page.

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Peekko Chat is a new Firefox extension that makes every web page a place where people can congregate. It adds a toolbar to Firefox that shows how many people are in that page's chat room and allows you to instantly connect with them.

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Surfing the web is like travelling alone. You get to see beautiful places, funny places, interesting places, yet they all have one bad thing in common: nobody's there.

Of course it only seems so. There's people visiting the same place you're visiting: reading your blog, listening to music you like, checking out the same movie, the same book.

Wouldn't it be nice if they were just a click away?

Now they are.

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2006 Netmite Communities is an web2.0 application. It allows you to connect with all other users who are also accessing the same web site or web page. Allow you to comment and review any web page - you can write down any thing about any web page, you can criticize any web page while you are reading their web site. You can also discuss with anybody else who is also accessing that web page, asking for help or help others !

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QuickChat is an extension that is designed to allow you to chat about anything on any website with the users that are actively browsing that site.

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Search Party is a web browser extension which "socializes" web searches, connecting people with ephemeral interests in particular topics together.

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http://www.gnome.org/~seth/summerofcode/searchparty/

A Firefox extension that lets you chat with other users visiting the same site.

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http://www.yakalike.com/

A cobrowsing plugin for IE and Firefox. Also available with Skype transport. It has collaborative scrolling , Collaborative Text Entry , Ability to Transfer Control ,

"JYBE is a plug-in to Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox and brings real time collaboration to web based systems and content. "

"JYBE is not a screen sharing application but brings collaboration directly to the browser utilizing an efficient and powerful data centric architecture that offers users the ability to collaborate in real time without leaving the application or the browser. "

Was: http://www.jybe.com/

What people are doing on the Web and beyond in a networked world is mostly hidden. Make them visible and amazing things will start to happen. Think of all those accidental things that happen on the street, in a shop, at the bar and on a party. We are all happily surfing but never bump into each other.

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http://www.eyebees.com/

WebRogue is an application for virtual presence over the Web. It is implemented by coupling a Web client and a Chat client, so that each time the user downloads a Web page he or she can see who is connected to that site and chat with them. The goal of WebRogue is to enable the birth of online communities around web-sites of interest, allowing exchange of opinions, in a free, non moderated manner, between site visitors and site owners, and thus it is designed with freedom of speech in mind. Nobody can moderate a WebRogue channel, no subscription or authentication is required, and the service doesn't rely on any particular application to be installed server-side in web-sites, for them to become meeting points for WebRogue users.

A Javascript based system, which shows avatars moveable in 2D on Web pages. Nice system. Works well without the Web site's cooperation. Wraps the page with an IFRAME and shows avatars on the page.

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Odigo for Windows has a function called "People With Me On". It shows people on the same page as a kind of radar display.

http://www.odigo.org/features/newtour/images/12.gif

Comverse bought NovaWiz, Inc. in 2002.

LLuna shows people on the same web site as icons in a chat window. It has a list of currently visited web sites and combines all visible users into the graphical user display. (Screenshot)

SIGA Technologies bought Hypernix in 2000. (Source)

"Virtual Places is a chat space floating on top of the World Wide Web. Chat and create your own avatars while in rooms created by actual web pages." and "Because VP can use the whole World Wide Web as its chat space, there are many, many places you can go with VP." (Source)

Does it still include the virtual presence function?

http://www.vpchat.com/

The Sociable Web project consists of a modified Web browser and server. The browser looks like an ordinary browser, and on pages not served by a Sociable Web server, it functions normally. On Sociable Web pages, however, it provides a number of social and collaborative features. Most notably, it shows who else is on the pages and it allows the user to strike up conversations or to join in ongoing discussions.

Virtual Places are enhanced World Wide Web pages that display human presence and enable live interaction and communication over the Internet. Applications for Virtual Places include customer support, online trade shows, enhanced home pages, guided tours, and everyday chat.

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