Assembla Releases Video Chat and Real-Time Team Room

Online, December 1, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Assembla (www.assembla.com), a leading provider of project management and collaboration software, announced the availability of a new group video chat capability for it's popular collaboration workspaces. Assembla is also launching a new Real-Time Team Room that is specifically designed for distributed teams that want to communicate and collaborate in real-time.

"Assembla's new video chat tool is great for focusing your team on what needs to get done, regardless of where they are located", said Andy Singleton, CEO of Assembla. "You can have face-to-face conversations with everyone on your team, making it a perfect way to focus on a specific task, deadline or project. And, Assembla Chat displays real-ime project activity directly in the chat stream so you see what's happening as you chat with your teammates."

Assembla is also introducing a Real-Time Team Room designed specifically for distributed teams that want to collaborate and communicate in real-time. "We designed the Real-Time Team Room for teams that need to keep track of everything that is going on in a project and communicate with each other in real-time," said Andy. "The Team Room makes it easier for distributed teams to track project activity, send group messages, share files, and collaborate using a project wiki."

For its innovative video chat capability, Assembla uses OpenTok, a group video communication platform recently introduced by TokBox (www.tokbox.com) that enables websites to weave live, group video communication into their online experience. "I'm thankful that the folks at Tokbox gave us a preview of OpenTok - it provides a great API that puts your user video streams into web pages with just a little bit of javascript." said Andy.

Assembla Video Chat and Real-Time Team Room are available immediately. Pricing is based on team size and free options are available for open source and public projects.