+1 Chat is awesome for standups and generally does all the required things. Wish everyone did it this way. The one thing I'd like to see is more scheduling of breakouts (conf calls) though. An ideal standup for me schedules at least 2 conf calls per day to work through issues. This is very rough estimate, fewer is fine only if everyone is chugging along great and knocking off tasks quickly and cleanly.

I'd also like to say standup works great for remote teams.