Yackall is a tool for chatting regardless when or where participants are located. Yackall is a tool to facilitate conversations among friends, strangers, and colleagues in the mobile generation. The conversations are based around rooms. Rooms can be public or private. Each room can contain one or more conversation topics. Rooms can represent groups, physical locations, or events. Currently Yackall has a web interface, a mobile interface and the ability to embed public rooms on other websites.