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I do a lot of online collaboration. So here is my list of online collaboration tools that I like to use.

• Jing – The absolutely best way to capture screenshots and video, upload and share it immediately
• Charting
  • Yuml.me – Insanely awesome tool for UML diagrams
  • Websequencediagrams.com – Insanely awesome tool for sequence diagrams
• Dabbleboard – Great online whiteboarding utility
• Mockups
  • Balsamiq – Incredible quick mockup builder
  • Moquingbird – Similar to Balsamiq but with different strengths. I think its better for capturing screenflows
• Online meeting
  • Webex – The best (I used it to screenshare and do live meetings with India) but prohibitively expensive
  • Microsoft Livemeeting
  • GotoMetting
  • Dimdim
• Bubbl.us – A really promising mindmapping tool
• Trac – Simple integrated wiki/issue tracker and svn. I just really like this wiki for its simplicity and I’ve used it in the past to great effect
• Google groups – Make a private group for your project and have everyone sign up. Now you have an effective mailing list which gives you threaded conversations and an online-accessible and fully searchable repository. A big plus is that this is achieved with the communication lowest-common-denominator – email
• Google Wave – I’m not convinced that this is ready for prime-time yet but it has some promise
• Google Docs – Great for getting a survey, spreadsheet, anything Q&A up and running super-quick. Also online collaboration with documents and having an web-accessible powerpoint is great
• Dropbox – Perfect for file sharing

Plus this site has some great ideas.

I am going to add to this post as I encounter more tools that I find useful.