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August 10, 2011 09:10 pm GMT

YC-Funded Envolve Launches An API For Real-Time Chat

Screen Shot 2011-08-10 at 11.48.30 AMInternet chat is older than the web, but it still remains one of the best ways to keep people engaged with a site. And for good reason: people like talking to each other. Or at least, they like to share their opinions with the knowledge that someone, somewhere is reading them.Now Y Combinator-backed startupEnvolveis making it even easier to integrate chat boxes into your site by launching an API that offers chat-as-a-service. And it'll let you integrate chat into nearly any webpage with a quick snippet of JavaScript. You can try one of their chat boxes out on TagChat, which lets you chat about trending topics on Twitter.For some context on what Envolve is doing here, it's best to look at the company's history.

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