Information Madness

There are plenty of open source forums available now a days. Like PhpBB, Vanilla1, YaBB, MiniBB but for all those forums, you will have to have MySQL, PHP and other resources that you need to host a Forum site.

But if you want a simple one forum for your product or service, you can use this embeddable forums. Just create and embed it into any of your web page (just like embedding a youtube video to your page) and you are good to go.

Tal.ki provides an easy to embed javascript that can be embedded into your webpage to create simple forum for your site. The service offeres free and paid plans where free account gets to create limited forum topics.

You have to provide your email address to have your forum created in just one click. Once you submit your email address, you will be given a javascript code that can be embedded to your page and you are good to go. Users can use any of their existing Yahoo, Google, Twitter, Facebook or OpenID to login to the forums and can create discussions or can comment on the existing discussions.

I think small businesses and product vendors can easily benifit from this as they can create such forums on their own website without having to worry about creating and managing user accounts for thier forums.

You can check out one I created for this site here

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