Chat and Social Networking
A Chat Experiment

While using the earlier versions of Campfire with my startups Aegis Data Security and FamilySignal, we came to see a need for a more streamlined connection between chat and social networking for the company and individual. This project was based on C#/MVC and SignalR with KnockoutJS. Utilizing all of these technologies we put together what was hoped to be a new take on chat and social networking.  At that point we were looking at Basecamp Campfire and Hipchat as competitors, these days Flowdock would go on that list as well!  

The idea was to take group chats and content sharing, combine private messaging with the same ideals and make it all seamless.  In the end, the idea never went to market, but, it turned out pretty cool for our limited use.  Here's what we came up with:

For more excitement, and an ad video I put together, look at the following!