Sitting round the Campfire

Last night I got to take part the performance testing 37signals were doing. Quite a few people who were in the chat with me were disapproving, claiming it was too basic, and that other web-based chats were better. I did keep pointing out to them that all this was being done in a pure HTML environment – no plugins required – but they still bemoaned the lack of features.

Hopefully today that should be dealt with as 37signals have released a screenshot of thhe app and a movie of the transcript browser that shows much of the functionality that I can happily confirm was missing from the test.

It looks like they have another winning application on their hands – I can see this being useful for all sort of discussions, and whilst it’s unlikely to win over anyone who uses IRC on a regular basis, it’s definitely more accessible and user-friendly than IRC.

I can imagine myself using it. Not exclusively, but certainly using it.

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