ChatVille Promises Cheeky Conversations and No Hairy Cheeks

Say what you want about ChatRoulette -- and its attendant scary, hairy parts -- it is popular (in that can't-help-but-stare-at-an-accident kind of way). So was only a matter of time before someone spawned a squeaky clean version with enough scale to capture the imagination, and the purse strings of advertisers. Enter ChatVille, a brand new Facebook application brought to you by the folks at Digsby, the creators of popular IM software.

CEO Steve Shapiro calls ChatVille a game, and it is in a...