Chat around the Campfire
The clever people who brought us Backpack and Basecamp strike back with Campfire which is essentially like having a chat in an Instant Messenger with several people, but with a fixed URL and logging of the conversation.
This could be a cool replacement for phone conferences for companies like the one I am working at - as the line quality to the India office always keeps you guessing what the other person meant.
I’ll give it a whirl…
via datacircle
February 18th, 2006 at 4:30 pm
In response to:
Please discover IRC first.
February 18th, 2006 at 8:14 pm
Well, I have been on IRC since 1996 (first on a Commodore 64 via a shell at a university) but I think it is a rather cheap shot and you cannot compare the two.
Campfire is targeted at project managers or non-technical people and gives an interface you can go to. You could install CGI::IRC at a location and point people there, but there wouldn’t be any logging or an easy interface like this, and you could certainly not expect all the participants to install an IRC client (or use Opera).
To prove my point: I was once sitting in the office chatting on #html in IRCNET using CGI::IRC (as our proxy only allows for port 80). The PM at that time walked by, looked at the screen and said “Wow, telnet! Haven’t seen that in ages!”