Given that I'm writing a client/server app that uses messaging and multi-party communication as an integral feature, you might find the node.js chatroom that Ry

Given that I'm writing a client/server app that uses messaging and multi-party communication as an integral feature, you might find the node.js chatroom that Ryan wrote to be interesting. http://chat.nodejs.org/ http://chat.nodejs.org/ It's fairly basic, but I'm not sure what you're looking for given that it hasn't been available for very long. Amazon, github, digg, onion, were all built on very mature technology.