Gabbly, a very easy to use chat application, launched on March 13th at the Techdirt Greenhouse. Gabbly allows any website to have their very own chat room, via a linking/URL or an embed method, and it’s very simple to use - simply prepend http://www.gabbly.com/ to your domain and you are ready (for the URL method, embedding requires a small piece of code). To visit Betaflow’s Gabbly chat, simply use http://www.gabbly.com/betaflow.com/.

Gabbly is an interesting concept, although it’s not very feature intensive as of now. A Gabbly employee did inform me they are steadily working on more features and are taking all suggestions into consideration. Some of the most sought after features currently are moderation, security, and private messaging - all of which the Gabbly team is working on implementing.

The Gabbly chat servers are impressive as well, withstanding a digg onslaught that they’re web server could hardly manage. It will be interesting to see how the Gabbly team transitions Gabbly from an interesting application to a successful business. I see advertising within the chat window and advanced features (logs, consistent moderators, etc.) as viable options.

Darren Rowse, of Problogger, ran a short Gabbly session on his website in which he stated, “It’s interesting - but not what I am looking for. I think I will purchase Campfire and run a few chat sessions with it.”