Vida social, vida real... online

Na era da web 2.0 e, em particular, das redes sociais, o chat está a renascer, lado a lado com os perfis dos utilizadores do Facebook ou do MySpace.

O artigo
Online Chat, as Inspired by Real Chat
By BRAD STONE
Published: March 31, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO — Compared with other forms of human interaction, online social networking is really not all that social.
People visit each other’s MySpace pages and Facebook profiles at various hours of the day, posting messages and sending e-mail back and forth across the digital void. It’s like an endless party where everybody shows up at a different time and slaps a yellow Post-it note on the refrigerator.
Now a new wave of Silicon Valley companies is bringing live socializing back into a medium that has, in the parlance of the technologists, grown overly asynchronous.
Vivaty, a start-up based in Menlo Park, Calif., is creating 3-D virtual chat rooms that people can add to the Web pages and social networking profiles on the sites where they spend most of their Internet time.

in New York Times - Technology