I had a chance to catch up with an old buddy, Lewis Rothkopf today, who's now VP, Biz Dev at Paltalk. Lewis and I go back to his days at Lightningcast, prior to its sale to AOL. Paltalk is an online video chat community that has about 4M active members. I confessed to Lewis that Paltalk hasn't been on my radar - I'm not the biggest IM'er in the world.

On May 1st, the company is going to be hosting "LateNet with Ray Ellin" in conjunction with DailyComedy.com, a live event from Comix in NYC. If you haven't seen Paltalk in action, this will be a pretty cool opportunity. "Paltalkers", as they're called, will have an opportunity not only to watch the live broadcast alongside others in the chat room, but also to interact with the host/guest in real time. More details here. I'm going to tune in, it seem like a very intriguing way to combine broadband video, social networking and interactivity...