Flowchart.com: A Quick Look

I requested and received my beta invite to Flowchart.com today. Seems like somebody has decided to challenge Gliffy in the online diagram space.

Long story short: I’m impressed. This is a pretty slick online application! I’d encourage folks to have a look — while it is in beta, I applied for and then received an

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Thursday Hodge-Podge

Running around getting ready for a big family weekend. Odds are, this may be the last post for a few days.

Here’s a pile of things that folks might find interesting. I’ve had them on my “to write about” stack for overly long, so tonight we cover a lot of ground!

Gliffy – Public Beta

Saw this posted at the Gliffy Blog: Gliffy is now in public beta. More symbol libraries too:

Flowchart
UI wireframes
Floor plan
Network shapes
Basic shapes

I’ve been dabbling around with this in the closed beta for a while now (previous post) and have been very impressed. And with the additional symbols it just got better.

I’d say these

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Got My Gliffy Invite

Received my Gliffy beta invite this evening (last mentioned). Haven’t played with it enough, but first impressions are very positive. Ajaxy smoothness blended with an actually useful application is a good thing.

As you can see to the left, sharing a Gliffy diagram is very easy. From within the tool, you can save

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AjaxSketch – online drawing

Stumbled over this one earlier today (probably saw it on Digg I suppose). From the folks who recently rolled out ajaxWrite, there is now ajaxSketch. From their blog:

As promised we’re announcing a new product each week on ajaxLaunch.com. This week we’re unveiling ajaxSketch. It’s an object-oriented drawing program suitable for creating flow charts,

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