What is a good web based, group collaboration/chat tool?

Asked by cbloom8 (1723

) October 12th, 2009

I’m looking for some sort of collaboration tool that is based online, is free, and can manage several people at once.

I’m using it for a large group of people (20–30) to all talk to each other live. Document manipulation/access would be a bonus, but my main concern is simply allowing everyone to talk to each other in a large contained chat area.

One option I’ve found is disposable chat rooms, but are there any similar options that are a bit more organizable and adept to handling several people and several conversations at once?

Any suggestions?

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Google Wave.

dpworkin (27085

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A live irc in collaboration with a common Google docs account has worked fine for us :D

beatthelastboss (306

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Chatzy?

applesaucemanny (1775

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Ning.com

Zen (7748

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Chatango? All the anime/manga sites use this. The account you create lets you share it with every other chatango box, and there’s an elaborate pm chat. Probally the internets most commen embeded chat.

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