Chat Solutions for Ning Comparison Chart

As a Ning Network Creator, Blendapps provides you with a choice in Ning Integrated Chat Solutions. Our chat alternatives are run by proven industry leaders of internet chat applications. Today, you can decide to run both Meebo Rooms and Userplane Webchat, giving your members a rich and integrated chat experience. With these options, your members can share instant pictures and videos, and even see each other live with their webcams.

  Ning Chat Blendapps’
Meebo Chat		 Blendapps’
Userplane Chat
Integrated with Ning [?]
All Blendapps Chat Solutions are integrated with Ning. This means your members are automatically recognized inside the chat applications without having to sign in again, or register.
Link to user’s profile [?]
Your members are recognized inside the chat applications and their profile URL is also identified. Your users will see each other’s profile picture and can click to go directly to the profile page.
No files to upload and no coding [?]
Creating chat rooms with Blendapps is easy. All choices are configurable with point and click options. There are no files to upload in your Ning Network and no programming skills required.
Advanced Settings Control Panel for NCs [?]
Blendapps provides Network Creators with a central control panel where you can manage all your chat rooms, edit them, and extract the code to insert in your Ning Network.
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Multiple Chat Rooms per Ning Network [?]
Unlike Ning’s default chat, Blendapps chat solutions allow unlimited chat rooms per Ning Network. Create a different chat room for each group, or topic of interest. Engage your users with multiple chat rooms.
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Chat is Embeddable [?]
Your Blendapps generated chat code can be embedded all over your Ning Network. Your chat rooms are not limited to one installation – spread it in different locations. You can even take the code and share it with other Network Creators to insert in their own Ning networks. Meebo’s chat room is also embeddable outside of Ning Networks.
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Can include non-logged in users [?]
Blendapps gives you the option to allow guests (non-registered Ning visitors) to participate in your chat room. This feature can easily be turned on or off, without having to re-insert the code.
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Users can insert pictures [?]
Blendapps’ integrated version of Meebo allows your members to paste image URLs into the chat window, where it will display it to all of the chatters in a common media box.
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Users can insert videos [?]
Blendapps’ integrated version of Meebo recognizes YouTube URLs and plays the video to all the chatters in the room.
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User Webcam/Video chat [?]
With Blendapps’ Userplane chat, users with webcams and microphones can turn them on and be seen and heard by the rest of the chatters in the room. Up to 200 simultaneous chatters can interact in one room!
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Chat logs [?]
Meebo Rooms provides chat logs for your convenience and can be accessed straight from your Blendapps’ control panel.
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Try it now!

Start using Blendapps chat for Ning right now, it is quick, easy and completely free. Just go to chat.blendapps.com and login with your GMail user credentials and you can get started. There is not registration required (if you have a GMail account) and there is no need to worry about complicated technical solutions (we have already done that for you).