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...ChatRoulette isn't a site that leaves much to the imagination, but one of the enduring mysteries is who exactly got the site started. In an interview with the New York Times, Moscow teenager Andrey Ternovskiy stepped out as the site's founder. Ternovskiy says he coded the site himself, with hosting for the project funded by family and friends. (The site now funds itself through a small line of advertisements at the bottom of the screen.) What's next for the 17-year-old whiz kid? More "weird" updates for ChatRoulette, and perhaps a trip across the Atlantic. Ternovskiy...
...Whether it's voyeurism, curiosity, collective boredom or a little bit of each, there's something strangely addictive about ChatRoulette. Launched in November, the site usually has more than 10,000 people logged on at any given time. You can spend hours on the site passing through an endless stream of faces and never encounter the same person twice. Using the site gets you into a rhythm, clicking and instantly passing judgment on a blur of people while they do the same to you. (See the top 10 iPhone apps...
...Notice that nowhere in there did I use the word chatting. That's because, though the site's called ChatRoulette, there's little actual conversation. A typical interaction lasts less than a second before one or both of you races for the "Next" button. When I tried to actually chat with people - mainly to ask what they were looking for on the site - they either stared blankly or skipped ahead. It seems that the only way to get anyone to stop their endless scroll is to either a) be female (in my unscientific test, about 85% of the people...
...amusing as some of the gimmicks may be, there's still the likelihood that you'll encounter one of the disturbing number of people video-chatting in the buff, a risk that makes ChatRoulette a site decidedly unsafe for work or for kids. For its part, ChatRoulette offers a disclaimer that the site is meant only for users over age 16 and provides a link to report offensive streams. But there's no virtual bouncer at the door to boot underage participants, and by the time you could report anything offensive, you've already seen way more than you wanted...
John Kapusta, a recent graduate of Harvard’s joint-degree program with the New England Conservatory, is currently studying voice and French classical vocal music on a Fulbright scholarship in Paris, according to the Gates Cambridge Scholarship Web site. Kapusta will focus on performance studies while at Cambridge. He could not be reached for comment last weekend...