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Dabbleboard gets an upgrade

Duncan Riley — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:41:58 +0000

Following a well received launch last month, online whiteboarding tool Dabbleboard has been upgraded with a range of new features that deliver an even more appealing package.

Auto-detection of curved lines makes some types of drawing such as flowcharts easier and also allows users to make complex shapes by grouping straight lines and bezier curves. The site also now auto-detects diamonds and triangles.

Users can now embed images. Embedded images work like any other objects in terms of moving/scaling/replication/etc.

The site has also had a makeover, and looks and feels more professional, while still being user friendly. Updated look-and-feel throughout the website.

Dabbleboard founder Zohair Hyder informs me that the next release will be focused on stability, performance and security, with this release being focused on delivering some of the requested features. I liked Dabbleboard when I first wrote it up, and I still like it…I’ve just got to resist the urge to scrawl weird things on the page every time I hit it

Dabbleboard: Online Whiteboarding Made Easy

Duncan Riley — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:15:10 +0000

Dabbleboard is a new web based digital whiteboard application that aims to deliver a natural and extremely easy to use end user experience.

Dabbleboard was designed by Fremont, CA based Zohair Hyder, a UC-Berkeley grad and former designer of GPU hardware for ATI/AMD. It was at ATI Hyder found himself frustrated “by the clunky interface of digital whiteboards”, leading to the creation of Dabbleboard.

Dabbleboard is focused on helping people think and communicate visually. Dabbleboard’s key selling point is its ability to make powerful features easily accessible to all users, so that it delivers the same experience as using a physical whiteboard. Dabbleboard allows reuse of old drawings, and enables sharing of drawings with people anywhere in the world.

The demo video is above, and hands on it’s as easy as shown. Draw a freehand line, box or circle, and Dabbleboard cleans it up for you. There’s some examples of saved user pages here. The service is still fairly new, but it shows a lot of potential and gets a thumbs up from me.