Bring IRC to Web 2.0; This time, 100% traceable

Yep, Twitter and a Ton of Twitter Tips and Tools have done it. A total free-for-all, IRC-style, complete with private messaging using the @username syntax. Obviously, I'm not implying that this is anything close to IRC, but for the new crop of net-chillens out there, it may keep them from ever discovering IRC; which, of course, THE MAN would simply love, right? I guess if you can't intimidate IRC out of existence, might as well try to distract and detract it into irrelevant oblivion; which shouldn't be too hard to do for anyone easily hypnotized by the likes of complementing mashups like TwitterVision and FlickrVision.