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Posted by ryan | Posted on 13:28

Posted: 04 May 2010 12:00 AM PDT

CometChat, an impressive in-page chat application that was featured at WRD before, is giving away 3 Basic Edition licenses and 1 Professional Edition license to WebResourcesDepot readers.

Also, they are offering a discount that will be valid for a week, starting today.

The details on joining the giveaway and getting the discount can be found at the bottom of the post. But before that:

What is CometChat?

It is a feature-rich chat application (built with PHP/MySQL) that sits at the footer of a website (Facebook Chat-like) and enables the users of the website to communicate with each other.

The application is compatible with many popular CMS and forum softwares like vBulletin, Joomla (JomSocial & Community Builder), Wordpress, phpBB, etc. and can be integrated with any custom membership system.

It comes with a set of very nice features like:

customizable "Who's Online" list (display friends or all online users)
direct chat with multiple users
users can have statuses like available, busy, invisible
new message notification with pop-up and/or audio
support for chat history, avatars, smileys, auto-links and user profiles
users can create chatrooms and send files to each other
bad words filtering
built-in 2 player games (pool, backgammon, checkers, etc.)
and more..

The application can be themed with CSS and extended further with the API provided.

CometChat also has one other feature which adds another interaction level on how the community communicates: video chat support.

Users can invite each other to a video chat and, once accepted, they can chat from a Flash-based interface which works very smooth. (This feature is available in the Platinium Edition).