The next Writely to be acquired by Google, this thing is pretty cool. It is a flash based groupware app for charts. Its still in beta, and it shows. There are noticable bugs, and editing in it is about half as nice as OmniGraffle, my normal diagram software. What Gliffy lacks at the moment, but sorely needs is SVG import. If I can export from OmniGraffle or Visio and import into Gliffy, then it is good enough right now to be very useful for collaboration.

I frequently use writely to create first drafts of documents with collaborators. I would use this too, if it were easier to use. Right now the "feel" of the editing is not quite there, and there are no snap-grids to align objects with. And when one zooms, the cut and paste changes the scale of the object in the clipboard.

I look forward to trying Gliffy the next time I need to collaborate on a chart. Its pretty cool.

I clicked publish on this sample diagram to show what Gliffy can do: http://www.gliffy.com/publish/1005576/L