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Create your own video conferencing room and hook up with your instant messaging buddies directly from your phone. Discover new tools also to send and share very large files without using email. All of the above and more in this week collaboration tools Picnic. Photo credit: Mipan From Sharewood, here my selected set of online collaboration tools for this week:

1. SnapYap: One-to-one free video conferencing room allows you to have free video-audio calls with your friends
2. ADrive: File hosting service gives you 50 GB for your files, and lets you share them with anyone
3. Ekiga: Free VoIP and video conferencing application for Windows and Linux
4. Alliance: Free open-source P2P application lets you share entire folders with your friends
5. Coffee Cup Live Chat: Downloadable software for chatting with your website's visitors
6. MyMapChat: Google-maps based web-site lets you chat with people and groups on a world map
7. Palringo: Multi-client mobile chat application enables you to chat, share files, and talk from your mobile device
8. TwitterCube: Upload and share images and documents up to 10MB via Twitter

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