This is just pretty damn cool. The boys (and/or girls) over at MidnightCoders.net have put together a AJAX powered chat room that displays the location of the user in the world using Google Maps (click on a room to chat in that room.)

This example demonstrates bi-directional messaging between heterogeneous (Flash and AJAX) clients and WebORB Message Server. The server performs additional processing to geolocate chat users, injects necessary information in messages so users can plotted on the map.

In an active chat room, it can get a little annoying, but I think it's pretty cool nonetheless. Perhaps if the map was zoomed out a little more so that it wouldn't jump around so much. It's kinda cool to see where everyone is chatting from.

[via Ajaxian]