37Signals, creators of award-winning BaseCamp have announced that they have launched new product called Campfire. Campfire is simple group chat service for businesses who want to chat with their partners, visitors and clients in real time. With Campfire you won’t need any special chat software or network, every chat has permament URL, chat is done using Web browser.

“Once you start using Campfire you won’t remember how you got by without it. There’s no better tool for business instant messaging. It’s dead simple too.”

-Dick Costolo, President, FeedBurner

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I have just read this report from E27 Summit on TechCrunch. They wrote about nine start-up companies that offer interesting Web 2.0 services. They had presentation on Stanford University. Those start-ip companies are founded by entrepreneurs who are less than 27 years old.

Reviewed start-up companies are: BillMonk, 411 Metro, Standpoint, LicketyShip, Flagr, PlaceSite, Box.Net, Skobee, NeuroSky.

Click here for the complete report.

We have mentioned IT Conversations earlier, and now we can recommend you another great place if you are interested in technology podcasts. That is this WEEK in TECH site. Podcasts are great way for learning new things.

Bloxpert.com is a blog published by Nicole Simon. She recently started with publishing this blog but on http://www.bloxpert.com you can already find several great podcasts of people who run major Internet, blog or venture companies. She made those podcasts during conference about blogging Les Blogs which was held on December 5th and 6th in Paris.

Some podcasts that you can find on Bloxpert:

Mark Fletcher (Bloglines)

David Sifry (Technorati)

Yann Motte (Yahoo Europe)

For more podcasts visit http://www.bloxpert.com

Keep up the good work!

Many of you already know what podcast is. The simplest definition is that podcasts are audio blogs. It is really great to hear the real person and, best of all, you can learn something useful without spending money going to conferences and tradeshows to hear them on the spot.

IT Conversations is very interesting podcast project. Here you can find podcasts of many well-known experts from different IT industries. Just to mention several of experts that have podcasts on that site: Steve Wozniak, Tim O’Reilly, Malcolm Gladwell, Douglas Rushkoff, Ben and Mena Trott…

On IT Conversations you can hear speaches from top IT conferences such are Web 2.0, SoftTECH, Pop! Tech, Software 2005…

Their slogan is: New Ideas Through Your Headphones.