After the site was down for the past week and looked like it had some technical difficulties Sunday, online "chat with strangers" service Chatroulette is finally back up and running. The new interface ...

While Chatroulette has been down for the past week, promising a revamped site last week, but with nothing to show yet, another online "chat with strangers" service called Omegle says it has benefited ...

An improvisational piano player known as Merton has inspired millions to watch videos of him serenading random strangers on Chatroulette. Even the famous musician Ben Folds has now gotten into the mix ...

The first time I entered ChatRoulette—a new website that brings you face-to-face, via webcam, with an endless stream of random strangers all over the world—I was primed for a full-on Walt Whitman ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 Chatroulette creator Andrey Ternovskiy said the site used to see 50,000 users a day. Now it’s 120,000. Francois Guillot/AFP/Getty Tens of thousands of people ...

Much like the guy I picked up at a bar in my first year of college, or that leather jacket I left in the back of a cab after ten Bacardi Breezers, I hadn’t thought much about Chatroulette since I last ...

Known as ChatImprov, the Facebook application aims to take the best parts of Chatroulette--connecting people with strangers--and offer them in a safer, more comfortable environment. A service that is ...

The first obituary for Chatroulette, a Web site that randomly pairs strangers for video chats, came in June, when Salon proclaimed, “you can’t build an empire on dicks.” Chatroulette’s combination of ...

And indeed, getting a girl at a house party to ask some guy on the other side of the world to show his genitals, and subsequently have all your friends jump into the frame to yell “Surprise!” was ...

We've solved 17-year-old Chatroulette founder Andrey Ternovskiy's penis problem. Or rather, a senior project manager from Missouri named John Spyers has. He's the guy who submitted the winning entry ...

Chatroulette's instant intimacy makes the daisy-chain webcam service the perfect "venue" for Merton, the improv piano player whose witty real-time songwriting has become a hit on YouTube. "I'm not ...