Campfirenow.com - Real-Time Group Chat and File Sharing

Campfire is one of the many products for companies designed by 37 signals that has been designed to help aid in communication and file sharing, without all of the extra distractions typically present. This keeps the interface nice and clean, as well as incredibly easy to use. It is great for communication between remote teams, or for making deals in a secure fashion, since chats can be password protected. It can also be integrated with Basecamp, 37 signals´ project collaboration tool. The fact that nothing has to be installed is also great.

“Campfire is a web-based group chat tool that lets you set up password-protected chat rooms in just seconds. Invite a client, colleague, or vendor to chat, collaborate, and make decisions. Link to a room on your intranet for internal communications.

This is a great tool that is already being used by over 100,000 people to send messages to their clients, colleagues, and collaborators. It´s exactly what a lot of people need to share information over their computers without having to email back and forth. The privacy element is also a plus.

Will people want to pay $24 per month just to have a little more ease in chatting and sharing files? A lot of companies already have the software for AIM or Messenger already installed, and these come free. Why will they decide to move to something they have to pay for if their free system is already set up?