The other day I sent around a Visio diagram that the boss wanted. A few minutes later my inbox was flooded with emails that went along the lines of “Cannot open it.” There are a couple of Mac users here who can’t open Visio documents and a couple of Windows users on older versions of Visio. The boss also wanted the diagram as a JPG to easily insert into a PowerPoint presentation.
Gliffy would have been ideal. It is an online flowchart/diagraming app (using Flash) and has one simple, killer feature; a URL to a JPG version of your diagram.
So I can create diagrams and send around the JPG URL to show people. It also has a collaboration feature, via email, which allows anyone you invite to work on the diagram through the Flash interface. It exports to JPG, SVG and PNG, allows printing and has the full set of diagraming tools you expect.
One feature it does need though is import and export of Visio and Omnigraffle files.
