Chart, Diagram, and Flowchart Tools

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http://www.smashingapps.com/2011/08/26/45-free-online-tools-to-create-charts-diagrams-and-flowcharts.html

Requirements:

  1. Infinitely scalable: users and number of documents
  2. Realtime, cloud, embeddable, automatically updating

Evaluating:

  1. http://www.jgraph.com/index.html and https://www.draw.io/?fileId=0B7pE5Y9PpJCXbEFMSGphM21xWFU - does not appear to have collaborative online feature in free version.
  2. http://www.lovelycharts.com/ - only premium appears to have collaborative feature
  3. http://flowchart.com/ - requested join invitation
  4. https://bubbl.us/ - team is paid; not clear if team is realtime collaborative
  5. https://cacoo.com/ - only 25 users
  6. Lucid chart - [1] - not free for collab
  7. http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.htm - appears open, but it is not clear if cloud collaborative feature exists