"Chat Roulette" attracts the attention of many netizens

Absrtact: "Chat roulette" play is very simple, basically, users just connect to the site, allowing others to read your computer camera, and then press the Start button in the upper left corner, a random sampling by the system, never met the stranger will appear in the user's

Last November, a quietly appearing website, "chat roulette," attracted a lot of netizens ' attention: users talk to random strangers in video format, while in chat, both sides can "turn the table" at any time. The website was founded by a 17-year-old Russian teenager! Now, the young man named Andretnovsky in the face of the huge sponsorship of the Russian tycoon and Google's dollar offensive in a dilemma-choose the United States? Or Russia?

Compared with other traditional social networking sites, the rise of "chat roulette" is clearly more rapid. At the end of last year, only 500 people used the Andretnovsky "chat Roulette" website. Now, chat roulette has 1.5 million visitors a day!

"Chat Roulette," The play is very simple, basically, users just connect the site, allowing others to read your computer camera, and then press the beginning of the upper left corner of the button, a random sampling by the system, never met the stranger will appear in front of the user. This random chat has amazed many young people who seek to be mysterious. Another feature of "chat roulette" is that both sides of the chat can turn the table at any time. This is also a very interesting design, not only let the participants feel that there is a master control, but also let the chat process a number of stimuli.

The founder of the website, 17-Year-old Andretnovsky is not a good student, he often skipped class. At the age of 8, Tenovsky's mother found that he was browsing the hacker Web site. At the age of 15, he invaded the Moscow school computer system and successfully obtained the relevant documents for the examination. Tenovsky thinks the school is boring, he can find his own way of learning on the Internet--browsing the interactive encyclopedia online.

The parents later gave him 8000 euros of money, and Tenovsky used the money to change the server. In addition, he rented a server in Frankfurt, Germany. "I use a free program to manage my site," Tenovsky said, "and I hired 4 program Shilai to work for me." ”

Tenovsky said that there are now more than 200 investment companies in Silicon Valley in the United States to engage with him, hoping to work with him. Google has also contacted him. The Russian network big Hemmirna recently met this lad in person, want to buy "chat roulette" 10% of shares.

Tenovsky said he had not yet decided, because it was not clear how much value the site he had created.