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Scrollback, a free open-source chat platform for online communities, has raised $500,000 Singaporean dollars (about $400,000) led by Jungle Ventures, with participation from Singapore’s National Research Foundation, Crystal Horse Investments, Singapore Angel Network, Roland Turner, and other angel investors.
The service is essentially a chat widget that can be embedded into online websites and accessed through mobile apps. If you run a site, you are probably wondering how Scrollback is different from software by other companies like MyLiveChat or Chatwee, or commenting platforms such as Livefyre and Disqus. On the other hand, if you spend a lot of time in forums, Facebook groups, or on apps like Yik Yak (and even the newly launched Facebook Rooms), you might not be sure how to fit yet another chat platform into your life.
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