We’ve related Chat Roulette, the (in)famous site where you video chat with someone randomly, to our local area before when someone figured a way to grab screenshots of people and post them according to their geographic location. That was fun, but we wanted Chat Roulette to do the real thing: Make “local” channels to find random chat buddies.

Recently they did just that. (Here’s the TechCrunch article about the new local channels)

Everyone is all in a tizzy for this month’s internet Macarena: Chat Roulette [1], where you are automatically connected via video chat to a random stranger also using the site.  Which sounds fun, until you realize that this guy is out there.

We hear at Punching Kitty Headquarters have been racking our brains for a way to take the large ChatRoulette user base and strip away anyone not from St. Louis.  You know, to see what St. Louisans where using the site which could be interesting…but thus far we got nothing.  The best thing about the internet though is that eventually someone else will do your homework and post it online. Chatroulette Map gives you a nice little map laid out with users from Chat Roulette and pinpointed by their IP address!  Nerd stuff!