DYNAMIC AUDIO-BASED ONLINE COLLABORATION SYSTEM AND TOOLS

Computer-implemented systems, methods and storage devices for online collaboration. An audio-based collaboration system includes an application having a connect cluster controller and a connect cluster user-interface (UI) element. The application enables a user to control online audio collaboration between other users in a group including which conversation in the group of users the user wishes to participate in accordance with one or more control inputs selected by the user on the connect cluster UI element through a user-interface. The connect cluster UI element includes a cluster of selectable regions, each selectable region corresponds to a respective user in the group of users. A collaboration manager manages collaboration between groups of users as part of a remote cloud computing service.