Yep, a web-based "campfire".

It’s so cool (er, warm!).  And I found out about CampfireNow.com from my pal and partner, Roger Nalls.  (Gee, his name keeps coming up a lot around here!)

A "campfire" is really better than a chat room, as you can post files to a campfire discussion and you can archive transcripts of your discussions also.  Free campfires have file storage size limits (10MB) and set a max number of participants all ‘chatting’ at one time (4).  But this is fairly generous! 

You can get a FREE campfire just by going to the website and signing up.