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Scriblink - Your own online whiteboard

Scriblink is an online digital whiteboard that allows you collaborate with others online through writing on a digital whiteboard. You can invite up to five people to join your board at a time and can talk to your guests through an in-screen chat function. You can write on your board using different colors and shapes and theres a layout toolkit to help you with the complex stuff.

If you don't have people to collaborate with but feel the need to draw the site also has a "Universal Board" where you can get together with random people from around the world and get your scribble on.

[via EmilyChang]

Filed under: Business, Design, Internet, Photo, Video, Office, Productivity, Web services

Collaborate online with Octopz

Octopz is an online collaboration tool that launched at Web 2.0 last week. The tool allows up to 5 people to get together online and collaborate on projects.

Designed particularly with creative professionals in mind, Octopz allows users to mark-up photos and video within their system without downloading any software. For instance if you were decorating an apartment for someone across the country, or across the world for that matter you could upload a video or photos of what you have completed so far and your client could access it and write literally on your video changes they would like to have made.

The tool is really ideal for people like graphic designers and video producers who may be working on something for someone far away. Allowing users to mark-up the video, graphics, or photos makes it easy to see exactly what changes your client wants to be made without any confusion.

The tool also has a built-in text messaging, VoIP and webcam support so everyone working on a project can get together for in what ever way is best for them. You can try it out for free for 14 days. After that Octopus runs $99/mo which is a pretty hefty price but could be worth it if you collaborate often with people far away.

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Online mind mapping using MindMeister and bubbl.us

MindMeisterMind mapping has been increasingly becoming a popular method for brainstorming or list-making. As anyone that has put a mind map up on a projector and used it to lead a meeting knows, mind maps can be an impressive and very useful way to organize thoughts, particularly when trying to keep a group of people on-task.

But until now, there have been few options in terms of available mind mapping software, and none of it was web-based. That has changed, thought, with the introduction of two competing products called MindMeister and bubbl.us. Setting aside the hipster and web 2.0 names, let's see how these products stack up against one another.

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