There are more free guestbooks to choose from at http://www.freewarehome.com/ and http://www.thefreesite.com/.
Forums
Forums are similar to Guestbooks, but visitors' comments are presented in a thread like a newsgroup and you can reply to individual messages.
I set one up with Delphi a long time ago at http://forums.delphi.com/m/main.asp?sigdir=Zymous, but anybody wanting to add a comment has to "join" Delphi first which I would find very off putting if I were the visitor.
The forum provided by Bravenet is less intrusive.
Chatrooms
Chatrooms allow an interactive text-based chat with someone else. Delphi (See Forums above) also provide chat rooms. Xoom provide a Java based chat room as part of their service, and because it's splattered in advertising you're free to use it on non-Xoom pages as well. Xoom send you junk email, but you can unsubscribe from their announcements list.Here's a . You will notice that again you have to "join" to be able to engage in chat, but there appears to be no proper validation of email addresses, username or passwords ;-). Here's the real thing. I've not tested it at busy times - it might be very slow or not work at all.
Bravenet also provide a Java based chat room.
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