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Is it possible to embed Skype into a webpage to use as live chat support for free?

24th August 2012

My answer to Is it possible to embed Skype into a webpage to use as live chat support for free? on Quora

Olark offer a very neat JavaScript widget that does exactly this (it’s text-based messaging, not video or voice): http://www.olark.com/—you can try their demo at the bottom of their page.

It’s free for up to 20 conversations a month, and very reasonably priced for the other plans.

Posted 24th August 2012 at 6:24 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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