It's-about-time-inator

I, Cringley has a great article up this week that talks about Mailinator and Talkinator, two apps that perform very familiar tasks in a very unfamiliar way. They are both very exciting, and prove that even these days you can do great things on the Internet without a big wallet.

Mailinator is a webmail service with no login required. Just make up a name - whateveryouwant@mailinator.com - when a website asks you for an email address, and you're done. A brilliant tool for keeping spam out of your inbox.

Talkinator is an embedded chat client that also requires no login - just pick a name, and start talking (reminds me of the good old days of IRC). Put Talkinator on your website, and you can instantly talk with anyone visiting your site.

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