We’ve launched our initial 3 month beta period of our new product. Registration is completely free for the first 3 months of use.

This is an application we’ve been developing for the last year and delighted to get it out in the public. Why not register an account and see if its something you can use.

Any feedback on the product would be greatly appreciated.

http://www.1time.ie

37signals have just launched a new product called Campfire. There is a chat room for all basecamp users that I’ve been having a look at just to get a feel for it.

The main benifit here over existing technology is to create a chat room that you can link to. The owner can create a chat room and then send a link or link of a webpage to it for guests to particapate in. So for example if you ran a community website you could easily create a chat room and link to it from your existing site. Personally I think this genius and I can think of hundreds of possible applications for it.

They however seem to be selling it more as a place where businesses can chat to clients. I really can’t see much use for this in reality but then again I’m sure people can point out situations were it would be useful.

It will be integrated into basecamp so that should be useful although i don’t think I’d pay extra for it at this point, I find it hard enough to get clients to use it instead of email.

To learn more take a tour.

“IE 7 implements a native XMLHTTPRequest object for Javascript applications, instead of requiring an ActiveXObject to be created. This also means XMLHTTPRequest will function on machines that have ActiveX disabled.”

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/09/13/465338.aspx

XMLHttpRequest will be a native object in IE7, meaning it will work even when ActiveX support has been disabled in the browser for security reasons. This brings the browser’s support for remote scripting—the technology at the heart of AJAX applications—up to the same standard as that offered by Firefox, Safari, Opera, and similar browsers.