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.