Group chats with Gitter

Group chats with Gitter

I’ve talked about group chatting with IRC, Slack, and Bindle, and recently stumbled upon Gitter. The interface is a lot like Slack, but, unlike Slack, you can have public or private rooms (with the free plan private rooms are limited to 25 participants). Every user is required to have a Github account, and those accounts are…

Communicating with Slack

Communicating with Slack

I started getting into Internet Relay Chat (IRC) about 2 years ago.  IRC is a distributed communication platform that started in the late ’80s, but is beginning to see quite a resurgence. There are elements of IRC in massive usage today, most notably, the use of hashtags in Twitter.  Some companies that are offering services…