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Drawing boards
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CoSketch
- free hand drawing, basic shapes, upload images
- No registration required
- Browser based, no plugins required. Very simple interface.
- chat box
- sharing is done manually, by sending people the URL
- drawing exportable as image
- functions to clear drawing, background, all
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Sticky Notes
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Padlet
- Sticky note board
- Stickies can have text, images, photos from webcam
- Flash-based
- No registration needed
- Anonymous access can be password protected
- Sharing by email, sending URL
- Exportable to PDF, Excel and CSV (but includes only the text)
- No function to clear the board
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GroupZap
- Free (with restrictions)
- browser-based (HTML5)
- No registration required, but possible
- Participants don't need registration. Invitation by e-mail
- Boards can be zoomed in/out
- Colourful stickies, icons, arrows and boxes
- not very fast
- Exportable to PDF and PNG (as image)
- History view of changes, with replay
- No way to erase the board
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Scrumblr
- No registration required or even available
- To share, manually send the URL by e-mail
- open source (Github)
- It can be installed locally (Node.js)
- Index cards on whiteboard metaphor
- very simple interface. All changes are real time for everyone.
- No export function
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Shared Documents
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google Docs
- Collaborate on documents like spreadsheets, text documents, presentations, etc.
- Google account required for all participants
- Sharing done by e-mail notification. Owner must send invites from site
- Chat function
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PiratePad
- No registration required (nor available.)
- Browser based
- Text sharing
- Time slider feature to see evolution of changes
- Save revision (snapshots) with restore
- Export to HTML, TXT (PDF not working)
- Chat window
- Authorship colours (to identify who wrote what)
- No way to delete the documents
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Agile Specific
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Scrumy
- Free. Real-time update only in paid version
- Fixed columns: To Do/In Progress/Verify/Done
- Planning Poker
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Other
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Popplet
- Registration required to create boards. No anonymous access
- Mind-map style diagrams, with connected nodes
- Sharing is done from the site, one user at a time, and seems buggy when inviting someone that isn't registered yet
- Users can't change their name
- Exportable to PDF and image
- Flash based
- Lean Coffee Table
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Decision Making
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Dotstorming
- free w/registration
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Loomio
- Collective decision making
- free account (limited to 1 "group")
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Doodle
- Scheduling polls