I’ve just finished a “public beta” version of Friendscribe.com, which is a web-based chat for keeping in touch with your friends. The idea is that chat messages are stored in a database, so you don’t need to have your browser always open to see what’s going on – just log back in later and see if someone has said anything while you were gone.

Try it yourself at http://www.friendscribe.com.

By the way, the site is powered by CodeIgniter – a PHP development framework you definitely should try out if you’re into PHP web development!