Voicechat The Guardian: Step by step: Creating a fake online ID: How do you remain anonymous online? Go undercover, suggests Mike Anderiesz
For many years people have accepted that having a spare Hotmail or Yahoo address is a good idea, primarily to discourage spam advertisers and maintain a certain level of privacy.However, as the internet expands into chat, instant messaging and voicemail, the need for adopting new identities grows. When a female uses a chatroom, for instance, does she really want 10,000 men fantasising over her real features with the (admittedly remote) possibility that she might be recognised in real life?...
SPREAD THE WORD ON EXCITE VOICE CHAT
www.excite.com or voicechat.excite.com It used to be when you sat down to have a nice chat with someone, it implied having a pleasant face-to-face conversation. Today's high-tech definition of having a nice chat usually means firing up the computer, going online and entering a chat room.Because chat rooms rely on text, most of the social cues that come from vocal inflections and facial expressions are lost.Now the folks at Excite (www.excite.com) have given the chat...
Voicechat NETSCAN
Chat room features real voices, but so far they're not saying much
I don't know anyone in the room, but they don't care - not Flowergirl, or Ms_Flirt, or Tom2K. I see their names on my screen, though not their faces, and I sit in my virtual corner, listening to the conversation. And I do mean "listen," as in hear their genuine voices. "Chat," the label for real-time online conversations, was always something of a misnomer. Chat, to most people, involves speech - not typing. But no...
