I have an asp-net website that lets people view dialogue. One way to obtain dialogue is via chat programs like skype. . You just paste the transcript from your skype into the website. The problem that my co-worker raised is that people might not want to use Skype, because they have their main, known identity, and if they are practicing conversation, they might want to use an anonymous identity. Skype can allow two identities in one computer, but its a pain to learn how to do this for our users..
So we looked at google chat, which is also quite complicated for users.
So we finally decided to integrate chat into our system. One advantage is that this would also give our users knowledge of who-ever else was using our system and was willing to chat with them for the purpose of our website.
I went to codeplex, and found an out-dated chat with a database that made no sense - a field that was string was a foreign key of a field that was integer. 'nuget' also was disappointing. Does anyone know of a good chat for the above purpose? That doesn't require much programming? That uses ajax and asp.net?