BumpIn.com Turns your Website Into a Live and Interactive Hotspot of Visitors

Boston, Massachusetts (PRWEB) June 8, 2009 -- BumpIn.com (http://site.bumpin.com) released a range of chat widgets that enable visitors of a website to discover each other in real-time, start a live discussion and leave comments for future users. BumpIn widgets are designed for website owners to enable live interaction around their website content -- turning their website content into topics of live discussion. For bloggers, people reading the same blog post can chat live with each other about a new blog entry; people following a breaking news story can strike a live discussion on a news website; sports websites can enable live discussions between people following the same sporting event; people watching the same video clip or webcast can chat in real-time on a video publishing website.

According to Dr. Umar Saif, the Founder of BumpIn, "the most popular BumpIn widget adds facebook-style chat to a website, blog or a forum". Dr. Saif emphasized that "even though the concept of adding chat to a website is old, BumpIn does not make traditional standalone chat rooms typically divorced from the content of the website. Instead BumpIn embeds chat as part of the entire fabric of the website to synthesize interaction around the content of the website. Think of this as blog comments on steroids". BumpIn also provides plugins for blogs, such as wordpress, and forums, such as phpBB. BumpIn Wordpress Plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bumpin)

BumpIn's chat and presence products are currently free. "It's amazing how many websites will benefit by permitting their visitors to find out who else is visiting the website and enable real-time interaction between visitors", said Dr. Saif. He added, "our goal at this time is to enable live interaction at hundred thousand websites before we think of monetizing our service". Currently BumpIn is used by over 5,000 websites. There is a premium service for large websites, such as social networks, for integration with site-specific user logins and social graphs.

BumpIn's products are based on a cloud-based server architecture, permitting the service to scale to millions of simultaneous users. "We designed the service specifically for large websites", said Dr. Saif. This is probably the first online chat widget that is backed by a scalable cloud.

BumpIn include a comprehensive administrative module to monitor and moderate activity on a website. Spam is automatically blocked, while moderators can reserve nicknames, snub or ban users, delete messages and moderate interaction. BumpIn admin module (http://site.bumpin.com/widget/admin)

BumpIn widgets are completely customizable, including colors, look and feel and size. "Since our goal was to design a widget that is embedded in the fabric of the website, we provide an unprecedented level of customization to allow seamless integration in the website", said Dr. Saif. "With our completely automated process to customize and embed chat, it should not take more than 5 minutes for someone to enable live interaction on their website with BumpIn", added Dr. Saif.

Websites with the most concurrent users are listed as BumpIn hotspots, driving more traffic to the website.For more information or to download BumpIn products, visit: BumpIn (http://www.bumpin.com).

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