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LG is now rolling out the SMS-controlled smart appliances it previewed earlier this year. You can send commands "much like chatting with a friend" to the Smart Refrigerator, Washing Machine and Lightwave Oven using the LINE messaging app and LG's WiFi-based HomeChat system.

AFK's app makes it possible for gamers to send in-game messages to friends from their mobile phones. Basically, though online games typically have to be accessed from a laptop/desktop, the AFK app makes the chat functions of games compeltely mobile. The company is predicting with the rise of app's like World of Warcraft's Auction House for iPhone, MMOs will look for new ways to detach functions from the gaming environment so users can have access from anywhere. Interesting marketing opportunity: where in-game advertising may have been awkward, advertising on top of game services (such as chat) may be more palatable.

site for college kids only, everyone is instantly connected to the ppl that go to their school (so there is no friending), text and video chat, geo-location functionalities, post general updates or updates in diff categories not possible for a brand to create a page of its own since you need a college e-mail 

i feel like ive seen this before but re-tagging if so like chatroulette but SMS only, shows users area codes and thats it, text only.

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Voice chat for gamers? Can Verizon tap into this at all?

Group chat for Dexter. Article discusses how weird the implementation is and that twitter is better for TV discussions

Shaker wins = "mingling environment" = avatar chat

revised version of chat roulette that features "channels"

T-Mobile is suspending the service because the company believes that in Facebook's current design it's not clear that the service is from T-Mobile.

Implications of, and approaches to, using the livechat features in FB/G+ for TV, but this is just a good approach to video in general.