What are the available solutions for embedding chat functionality on a website?

We want to introduce chat on our site so that users can communicate with each other.

Our general requirements:

  • It should display in our web pages, but it can display in an IFrame or something. Our site users are part of the general public, not internal teams, so we do not want them to install a separate application.

  • Users should be able to use their existing account on our website and not create a new account for the chat tool. If we partner with someone like Meebo, we do not want to share a significant amount of user information with the partner.

  • The code is publicly licensed, but preferably not an open source project using the GPL license, but a BSD or MIT license (and possibly others) is fine. An inexpensive product with a non-public license might be fine.

  • We want this to be implemented pretty quickly, and we really don't want to create our own solution.

Has anyone worked or knew of any solution that satisfies some or all of these requirements? Any other ideas / suggestions?

Thank.

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There are many. Regarding open source try

https://blueimp.net/ajax/

If you want a powerful web-based chat server take a look

http://www.igniterealtime.org



We currently use this internally in a Windows environment. We had some problems with it working with Active Directory, so we went to install mySQL.

Why not shell out a few bucks (sometimes it's cheaper NOT to reinvent the wheel)

http://www.aspnetajaxchat.com

Hope it helps

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