Demo of Firefly
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 by Dave Winer.
I'm at the offices of Betaworks in New York, meeting with CEO John Borthwick who I know for many years from AOL. 
They have built a product called Firefly which is rolling out tonight at the Tech Meetup in New York.
He just gave me a demo and my first reaction was "You can't do that," then I asked if I could put a demo of it on Scripting News today and he said (to my surprise) Yes.
It's so weird it's practically illegal. You can watch people's mouse move around the page, and then chat with them. Go ahead and give it a try.
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