The QuiteUseful guys: Alex Young, Kevin Ford, Simon Starr and me (although I must admit my input on this project has been pretty minimal so far) have been working on a simple open source realtime chat protocol based on JSON, called jschat.

There’s a server, console and web clients. You can download it from Alex’s GitHub repository, or read more at the JsChat Blog and today’s QuiteUseful article.

Try it out by going to jschat.org.