Web 2.0: Chatroulette Gets Google Map Showing User Locations

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Chatroulette is a site that randomly connects two users to each other via Web cams or chatting, it often has creepers on it.

The slowly growing and infamous site Chatroulette has rolled out a new feature that snaps a photo of each and every user and pinpoints them on a Google map with their general location. Although the location pinpoint is not exact, for people using mobile devices like smartphones, it will get very close.

The site that has become known as the hangout for many a creepy man masturbating with anonymity will now be thwarted with the installment of chatroulettemap.

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The site works by capturing the users IP address, which then plots them on a Google Map based on the ISP (Internet Serive Provider). Depending on the updated network, the ISP can place a user on the street or even the building they live in.

According to their site, “Chatroulette utilizes Adobe’s Stratus platform as a means of reducing their bandwidth costs while providing video services. Chatroulette mearly handles the behind the scenes handshakes involved in making two clients connect, the actual connection however is a peer-to-peer link between the two users.”

For the individuals who get caught with their pants down and would like to remove their image, they suggest to simply email them with proof of who they are. How they can differentiate between a persons privates and their face on the other hand is another story.

“Email us directly, chatroulettemap@gmail.com, we read every piece of mail which passes through and handle them accordingly. Please note that in most cases we do ask that you include some form of proof that matches you with the image you wish to have removed.”

The site also explains that there will soon be a way to report images in poor taste as well as rating them.

What do you think about this new feature hitting Chatroulette? Does it turn you away from it’s idea now that much of the anonymous feel has been removed?

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