Fred Wilson (Www.avc.com) wrote about Chatroulette.com a little while back. I can say a lot of things but chances are most people experienced the same combination of fascination, revulsion, and sheer panic that I felt the first few times I used the service. I liken it to napster - the first time I used napster, I remember this feeling of sheer adventure, like anything was possible.
You feel a similar thing on chatroulette, until.....
What will really be a beautiful application of chatroulette, will be its embedding or integration into any social networking API. For example, imagine if you could do random video chats with, not people you're friends with, but with all your friends' friends? It would be exponentially more useful as you would get in touch with people who are marginally connected to you, and who its much more useful for you to meet, and the deletion of anonymity will force people to behave, which ultimately is a plus for the functionality.
Cheers to whoever gets that off the ground.
ayo
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