by Tahj Trav

Younow.com is a not your average broadcasting website. There are plenty of sites online, that allow live streaming including multi streaming in one room. But none of them puts the user in the spot light. Sites like Tinychat and justin tv let users go live but most are never seen, or only able to capture a small audience because they are buried under 70 plus live streams.

I have become a loyal user of younow and from my experiance in running video chat sites, and being around the business of online streaming it’s by far the best. I can tell you right now that it can be highly addictive! Younow has all the right signs of becoming a major internet hot spot. A recent check on Alexa.com puts the sites Worldwide rank at 258,266 with a 70% increase over 3 months. Approximately 46% of its visitors are in the UK.

Lets get into some of the features found on younow. One of the best parts is the simple single click registration using Facebook connect. So if you like fast and easy sign up process then you will love the login via Facebook. It takes only 5 seconds to login, and 30 seconds to setup your broadcast settings before getting your place in the queue.

The site is powered by younow gold coins which you can earn in various ways. The quickest and best paying gig on you now is to go live and broadcast. Other ways to earn points is by interacting in the chat room with other users. When you broadcast not only can you earn points, but you can earn fans who will be notified every time you go live. Now lets get to one of many people’s favorite part. How about younow prizes and contests? Well that’s exactly right they give away prizes and sometimes even cash. Currently there is a competition where any broadcaster who gains 50 fans can win a t-shirt. Gain 1500 fans and you win the new iphone.

There are millions of websites online and competition is heavy, but most importantly saturated. So standing out takes serious work both in the interface and staff behind a project. The younow staff from my experiance is super talented and have more than enough energy to take this site to a National level. I’m sure there will be much more talk about younow.com in the future especially once super viral level is reached.

I want to say it’s been a long time since I have become a loyal user of any internet project besides the one’s I currently maintain on a daily bases. Having built and designed many successful projects i must agree this site is one hot site. So if your a broadcaster on any other site and have yet to broadcast your talent on younow you better take 10 minutes to see what all the buzz is about. Or you can just go and watch if your not much of a broadcaster and maybe cast a vote or two. Either way your in for a treat. If you do start using the site you can become a fan of me and check out my broadcasts HERE

And if your not interested in broadcasting or watching live broadcasts and you were just looking for video chatroulette then your at the right place because we are still the number one chatroulette alternative people roulette site on the net! Click for video chat roulette!!

The real problem is the IP ban plague that is over running the whole website. Idiots that think they are special only because they click a button and users become banned! When i first discovered the site I spent about 20 minutes before I was suddenly redirected to A white screen with black letters that reads “Your IP Address Is Blocked!” What did I do wrong? Nothing! I was not even chatting just watching and was kicked and banned from battlecam in a blink of an eye.

The site is owned by Alki David an Actor and creator of battlecam.com which im sure has no idea how his site is being destroyed by the trolls and goons that run it! Then people wonder why the site only has about 2,000 people online at one time. Maybe because 60% of people who have discovered it have been ban from there and not just for 1 day or a few hours its forever!

Battle cam will eventually come to be another ghost town with the upcoming launch of Airtime and younow things are already looking dim for them. Alki can thank all the trolls who have nested and taken over the land of battle cam.
As for me, they can shove it where the sun don’t shine. Plain and simple people are sick and tired of the Online bullies pushing and banning people on the net for no reason. Just because they can! It’s okay because people just move on and search for alternative sites like ChatRevolve.com Airtime or younow.

We launched chatrevolve almost two years ago and it has been growing ever since. We have reached over 30 million page views and over 1,000,000 monthly users. Recent additions include a cam community where users can login via Facebook connect and add friends to their profiles. The social community is currently in Beta testing, but open to all users.
You can still access all the chat sections without registration or authentication allowing users their privacy.

Why Chatrevolve remains the top chatroulette alternative for Camzap & omegle chat? Well thats very simple. We will start with Omegle. They have a pretty nice site with no registration required, but allows you to Facebook connect if you wanted to do that. The downside to their site is the constant captcha code that continues to pop up as you search for a random chat partner. It begins to get annoying real quick. Sometimes they pop up after 5 spins, and at other times it’s after 20. It seems to be random and not have any pattern.

Now Camzap is a decent site but it has a banning problem. Alot of users who leave feedback at our site have complained about getting banned on camzap like chatroulette because of false reports. They have a button called report and it gets abused by members who are just button happy. Many nice people have been Ip blocked on that site for no bad reason at all.

Now the reason why millions choose ChatRevolve.com as their top choice. First there are over 40,000 members online at any given time. The site is completely free, and does not require registration. We are not blocked in any country and can be accessed at all times. We have over 5 different chat roulette section and you can register for our free video social portal.

Try Chatrevolve video chatting right now by clicking on our home page above.

The jury worked over 7 hours last Friday but told the Judge they had not come to an agreement. So they were sent home and deliberations were left to continue on Monday morning. We have been following every second of this important trial and it has been tense moments since the very start.

During the days that followed the trial, Michael Jackson supporters could be seen at anytime through the day standing outside the court house showing their support. Others where there in support of Dr Conrad. While some just wanted to catch a glimpse of such a high profile case.

After interviewing over 48 witnesses and more than 23 long days it has finally come to an end. Now we must wait for the sentencing and see what will happen.

Tokens have officially been introduced at chatroulette for everyone, that is everyone who is willing to shell out some cash to access some of the features that come along with paid tokens. After all why would they give out free token codes? The cost is $10 for 100 premium next passes which gives you the options to choose Country and gender.

chatroulette since the early days has had problems monetizing their website, to pay for all their server and bandwidth usage from their massive early day traffic. When the site first launched the service would have a link at the bottom for a paid subscription dating service. We can only guess the dating site was probably paying them peanuts for a direct link and advertisement. The link was later removed and the redirect action was introduced for users who violated the terms of service at chat roulette. Redirect is when your Ip address is banned at chatroulette it automatically kicks you off their site and sends you where ever they choose.

There are rumors that the sites owner was offered over 1 million in hard cash to sell the site just 8 months after it’s successful launch in 2009. The offer was later refused along with numerous other offers to buy the fast growing random webcam chat site.

There have been some improvements to the site but overall millions of people remain banned from chatroulette. Those include lists of users who were banned for nudity, and those who were Ip banned for no reason at all. Regardless of the reason a person gets banned or not the question is why do people keep seeking alternative chatroulette & omegle websites? First you have those who are already banned at CR they need another place where they can still enjoy the chat random experience to camzap and next user’s they don’t like. Then you have those who enjoy having a conversation with the option to do it in the nude and seek random chat sites that allow it.

Now to the most important thing, FEATURES, Options and more. After all we do love anything and everything that is loaded with choices to choose what we want to do or how we want to experience certain things. Some people enjoy chat random with girls only, some with guys only. Those are just a few choices and reasons why alternative cam sites like ChatRevolve.com is flowing with over 500,000 Monthly users and growing. It has all the gadgets without registration and it’s 100% free with tons of module choices.

Over the last 6 months there has been a huge increase in fake roulette ad sites popping up all over the place. The problem is they are not even chat sites, it’s just a landing page filled with ad’s for people to click. These kind of sites are a problem for people seeking real alternatives to chatroulette.

We have taken the time and researched 10 plus sites ourselves to weed out some of the fakes. We will only be going into a few of them, and providing some screen shots below. We can all agree that making some money online for providing a nice clean site, with quality content is ok. But to create these pages (we can’t even call them websites) because they are just no effort splash put together for only one reason. Profit. They could care less about the user’s and site design.

The first site we will examine is shufflecam.de which contains an extensive list of paid ad’s with a photo of some girl, that looks a bit more like a guy with no hair, and a sweaty body after working a 10 hour construction shift. The list has a bunch of places that either require money or registration. That is the complete opposite of the roulette chat concept.

So above I have provided a screen shot of shuffle cam with the woman, and the super long list of junk. Nothing even worth taking a look at for the time being. Unless this site cleans up it’s act and offers something people want, they will fade like the summer of 2011. But this is only one of the few we will look at today. We plan on updating the list as we discover more in the coming month’s.

This next one we are going to examine is either trying to be funny, or lost it’s mind completely. They claim to be the best shuffle chat? That’s what it says on their logo or banner located on the top part of their site. First thing we notice is that missing roulette module. Meaning there is nowhere to webcam chat it’s gone, or they just forgot to add that part. Take a look below at this waste of web space.

The last one we decided to look at is Italychat.de aimed for Italian chatters. But the sad thing is when they arrive at Italy chat they won’t find anything but an extensive list of boring ad’s. Another page with no interest in providing a real service for people to have fun. Fortunate for you we have sites like chatroulette and ours Chatrevolve.com providing free webcam chat with no registration for everyone in the world.

ShufflePeople Greed and it’s excessive advertisements

ShufflePeople has closed it’s doors and shutdown it’s website. If you were looking for shuffle people you can use a similar website by clicking on the pink link that says shuffle people below if not go to our home page, or try ChatRevolve.com

We decided to write A review on Chatroulette Omegle Alternative called ShufflePeople. We know how important it can be for users to be able to access A site easily without getting bombed by Ad’s. Internet surveys have shown time and time again that over advertising on sites drives users away for good. Shufflepeople makes users watch advertisments between every chat shuffle. It’s A problem that’s exhaustive beyond explanation.

No only are there hundreds of ads including pop up ads and video advertisement. But it’s the fact that Fake adult type ads are being used to lower adult males looking to web chat roulette with A nice girl. They are tricked into clicking these ads in return making the owners thousands of dollars while abusing their loyal users who are yet to find the Great alternative Roulette Chat Sites.

Shufflepeople is quickly loosing users at lighting speed. At one time they used to recieve A good amount of Chatroulette alternative traffic. But those days are starting to fade away giving way for new roulet sites to pop up. Their desperate attempt at monetizing their website at the cost of it’s users has started to take it’s toll. Just A few moths ago admins at Shufflepeople started plastering every inch of the site with pop up ads, flash advertising and more. The ads are so bad they take up A huge amount of space and users are in A constant battle shutting off ads just to click next.

While we don’t expect our users to care much for such A site with poor choices of attacking users with hundreds of ads. We decided to write this review for the sake of new people coming into the webcam chat scene. Saving you the time and trouble is only half the problem because you are more likely to Shuffle Ad’s, than people. For the best Shuffle People Alternative just use ChatRevolve.Com

Just A few screenshots of Ads found on ShufflePeople

There are no official announcements explicating the banning appendage, but the Chatroulette terms of service state understandably that the access to the service can be restricted anytime without notice.

Chatroulette reserves the right, at its solitary free will, immediately and without notice, to suspend or cease your admittance to the Web site, Message, or Services or any portion therefrom for any reason, violating their terms of use.

The chatroulette Ban explained..

We don’t know what kind of system chatroulette ban uses for controlling their community, but we do know it’s a very open system that many user’s are complaining about. When A user is on chatroulette every single move is being screen shot behind the scenes. After that the system will group these shot’s into a list that is then available to be reviewed. But the problem is the people reviewing is the public. Anyone who is banned on the site is either redirected or given the chance to do “community service” for chatroulette.

Community service on chatroulette is unfair and not the reason people go to the site. User’s are there to interact and have fun. The end result is that user’s hate the new ban system because it’s unfair and controlled by the public. We all know when the public has control Unfair ban’s will be the end result.

Bypassing the chatroulette Ban…

There are 3 options to get around this problem. You can do community service, or if you have an modem that changes IP address’s everytime you reboot it then you can try getting A different address to regain access. See here how to change IP’s. The last option is really simple use an alternative site similar to chatroulette like the service we provide.  ChatRevolve