Cool Stuff: Unusual Website From Russian

I read about this cool website… rather unusual website created by a Russian teenager. Andrey Ternovskiy, a 17-year-old high school student in Moscow, is the founder of Chatroulette.com.

Chatroulette generates a live webcam connection between a user and a random stranger. That is cool or mere crazy? This website has drawn a lot of publicity in recent weeks and even the attention of Fred Wilson, a well-known venture capitalist with Union Square Ventures and Flatiron Partners.

Wilson touched on some of the attractions and drawbacks of Chatroulette, which has been denounced by some critics as a hotbed of exhibitionism and voyeurism.

“Chatroulette feels like a pretty cool way to take a quick trip around that network, meeting people and talking to them”, Wilson said.

Ternovskiy told the Times that he created Chatroulette for “fun” because he and his friends had gotten bored talking only to each other. So, he decided to create a little site for himself and friends where they could connect randomly with other people. Another cool point

I’m impressed that Ternovskiy was writing all of the code for the site himself and that relatives had helped him pay the bandwidth and server hosting bills. Most of the users are in the United States.

Do you believe this lad can do all this? Cool dude… He thought it’s cool that such a simple concept can be useful for so many people. Well, some people are not using it the nice ways.

With Chatroulette, two groups of teenagers can party together. Create cool songs and music is just great.

Chatroulette was launched in November 2009 and attracts nearly 20,000 users a night according to the Times. Keep it up young Ternovskiy… you are such a cool guy with the cool stuff online.

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