mac.ro (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Pyro 1.7 Pyro ... Your Campfire chats in a dedicated application, with the number of unread messages on the Dock icon, in Growl and on the Campfire tab bar. Drag and drop file upload. Accelerated room switching. AppleScript support. Pyro for Mac OS X 10.4 does all that, and is completely free! Campfire is a great, web-based, business group chat service. It's superior to IM in many ways, but we thought...
mathewingram.com/work (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
So after much hullabaloo and rejoicing over the launch of its Amazon-style “cloud computing” service, Google decided to take down the first app build to run on that service, a collaborative workspace called Huddlechat. Why? Apparently some people thought it was a ripoff of Campfire, a collaborative chat-workspace thing from “software as a service” superstars [...]
Web Worker Daily (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
One of the launch showcase applications for the new Google Apps Engine is HuddleChat. If you’ve ever used 37signals’ Campfire, HuddleChat is easy to understand: it has exactly the same feature set. You get ad-hoc web-based chatting with persistent transcripts, file upload and storage, and even special formatting for source code pastes. You also get [...]
Web Worker Daily (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
Free (and alpha) service Chatterous offers web-based chatrooms to all comers. In that regard, they're somewhat similar to Campfire, but there are notable differences. The key feature here is that chat is not strictly a web-based activity: you can communicate with Chatterous via web, email, IM (GTalk only at the moment) or SMS - as [...]
