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title: "Social Chat Experiment with XPanity Chat Widget"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/8/28/social-chat-experiment-with-xpanity-chat-widget.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/8/28/social-chat-experiment-with-xpanity-chat-widget.html"
published: "2007-08-28T07:56:00"
updated: "2007-08-28T07:56:00"
tags: []
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "This post is part of a beta Chat Experiment, using XPanity's Chat widget ( http://www.xpanity.com ) You should see a chat window on the left sidebar of this blog if you view this page inside a browser. (update: sounds…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Social Chat Experiment with XPanity Chat Widget

By Roy Osherove August 28, 2007

**Historical article** · Originally published August 28, 2007; technical details may be outdated.

This post is part of a beta Chat Experiment, using [XPanity's](http://www.xpanity.com/) Chat widget ([http://www.xpanity.com](http://www.xpanity.com/ "http://www.xpanity.com"))

You should see a chat window [on the left sidebar of this blog](https://osherove.com/rosherove) if you view this page inside a browser.
(update: sounds have been muted to stop the annoying "joined" sound)
(See full syntax and usage of the widget [over here](http://communityhacker.com/syntax-for-using-xpanitys-chat-widget/))


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/