Google adds Huddle Chat, a free online conference chat service

Google introduced a new Google App services for a range of hosted, automatically scalable Web application platforms. It is similar to Amazon’s Web services but offers more choices, including the powerful Huddle Chat.

Google App Engine services was announced today, offering a good range of Web services for businesses. Huddle Chat is one of the standout products.

Huddle Chat is available free for everyone. It is a real-time online chat service, which you can use to chat with your clients or have an online meeting with your employees worldwide.

Besides the normal chat services, you can share code snippets, images, links, and files as you discuss. If you are having a conference, there is no need to take minutes for the meeting; Huddle Chat provides transcripts for every chat.

Huddle Chat is very user-friendly: You can log on to it with either your Google email account or Google Apps and create a chat room easily in seconds. Huddle Chat creates a link which you can share with other participants in a secure environment.

Here is a sample Huddle Chat room.

There is a complaint that it is a copy of Campfire ,another chat service, but you have to pay a monthly fee to have that product, whereas this Huddle Chat free and there are no limits to the number of users. You can watch it in action here.

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