I just received word of a really cool web-2.0ish tool. It is called walkietalkie. It allows you to easily open full-duplex push-to-talk voice chat rooms. To create a new room or join an existing one, just point your favorite browser to http://www.yackpack.com/walkietalkie/?room, where room is the name of the room. Then you can just paste that URL to your friends and start yapping. You can also add a gadget to your home page pointing to the room, allowing people to talk on your channel directly from your home-page or blog. Snappy.

It is totally based on Flash and, therefore, requires no installation (other than the you-already-have-it Flash plugin). You must, however, “allow” your Flash plugin to capture stuff from your microphone when it asks to. This is a security measure provided by the Flash plugin itself, as means to protect people from being eavesdropped inadvertently when they visit some evil page.

Of course, it is a free and beta software (read limited and buggy). Additions like text chat or presence list would make it really more useful.

credit: Bruna, via NDI.

‘Cos I just bought myself a new notebook! It’s a Samsung R40 CEFESTO. Nice machine overall, the only quirks so far being this wicked keyboard (the infamous german kezboard) and the fact that I’m not used to notebooks at all.

Now that I can access the Internet on my own room, I’ll try to update my blog with my lucky tales in Germany. Stay tuned!

Listening to: Belle and Sebastian - Stay Loose (boy, I sure missed listening my music these last 2 weeks)