Everyone has their favorite collaboration tools for chat, blogs, video conferencing, photos, booking-marking and we all use more than one. The problem is that the majority of these applications don’t work well together and we end up having the hassle of keeping track of all of these different sources of information.

Grou.ps has set out to fix this problem, by creating a platform that integrates all of these collaboration services with a single login. The system supports photos, chat, forums, calendars, blogs, wikis, maps, profiles, all which are available as a separate plugin to add to your Grou.ps account.

While having just gone beta today, Grou.ps already has over 150K members and 10K groups internationally. Grou.ps however has quite a bit of competition. Ning and Wetpaint have integrated forums and various forms of media into their community products. Google and Zoho also have compelling collaboration suites with a similar single login that gets you chat, email, audio and video teleconferencing, presentations, documents, wikis, and many other tools. Grou.ps is backed by Golden Horn Ventures.