Twitter + Google App Engine + Huddle Chat = Flash Mob

When Dave Winer beckons the crowd follows. I was looking at Huddle Chat the new demo for Google App Engine and wanted to play around a bit. But before I could even think of inviting someone to join my chat, I saw the Tweet from Dave Winer calling us all to his chat room on the "Armed Services Committee".

Within literally a matter of minutes there was a crowd gathered sharing pics, chat messages and just having a fun time testing the app. It was like the largest virtual Campfire that just got together in a matter of minutes. Sweet! This is the amazing thing about Twitter. Now you have a whole bunch of people you can talk to and almost have a flash mob effect.

Also check out Techcrunch's demo appengine. OK I'm off to chatting with my new campfire friends about the Google App Engine and discuss politics! :-)

Comments

[Dino Baskovic]

It's been yanked. Here's Google's cryptic message:

"Hi, a couple of our colleagues wrote Huddle Chat in their spare time as a sample application for other developers to demonstrate the power and flexibility of Google App Engine. We've heard some complaints from the developer community about it and because of that we've decided to take it down. If you'd like to see more sample applications written on Google App Engine please check out our documentation and our App Gallery.

Thanks,
The Google App Engine Team"

I wonder what happened?

[Akshay Java]

I just read some bloggers talking about how Huddle Chat was like 37signals see RWW for example: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/huddlechat_campfire_rip.php I wonder if this is what caused them to bring down the App?