Blooie, Airtime and online chat - what's the future?

[twitchhiker]

Two stories published in the last 24 hours, two startups tackling online chat in very different ways:

Airtime - http://allthingsd.com/20121002/like-eating-glass-sean-parker-on-airtimes-bumpy-launch-exec-departures-and-more/

Blooie - http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/03/blooie-launches-its-chat-platform-for-online-publishers-powered-by-the-interest-graph/

Not a fan of video chat, too evasive but matching people around web content is interesting.

Thoughts?

[howardtjmoon]

Airtime building on top of Facebook with no platform of their own is massively dangerous. Don't understand the scale of investment when there's no control. Will take a look at Blooie, bit of an underdog in comparison, but prefer text to video.

[cuponthefloor]

The key about Blooie is that it lives where the content lives. It isn't a destination site like Airtime. Users dont have to leave content to find a conversation.

[coldclimate]

"I’m told that the chat logs themselves are never stored, it does give pause for thought" Some interesting scaling challenges there I imagine