I've recently had the opportunity to meet some talented developers from the distinguished city of Nuremberg. It was inspiring to learn how they specialized on certain skills and how distributed teams work together seamlessly.I generally observe that freelance developers and smaller companies can tap into new and innovative tools much quicker than large companies (partly of course due to regulatory reasons applied to large institutions).For easy stand-up-meetings and to pull distributed teams together they used "appear.in".Their tag-line says it quite well: appear.in  -  one click video conversations. But it can do even more. It can share your screen and it works nicely on an Android device or on an iPhone. I tried it out and I was surprised how easy, hassle free and quick it is.Essentially you:

• go to their site: https://appear.in
• pick a name for your room (any kind of name - I know there may be Security concerns for confidential meetings but for quick team huddles it is really nice)
• and a second later you're in your meeting room (which seems to use a nice web standard front-end / no flash or plugins needed)
• you can invite others and start chatting
• there is easy text chat and screen sharing capabilities as well
• and as far as I can see: it's free!

 And to cater just a little bit for the fine print: they seem to be based on Norway and their terms of service states that they don't store any transcripts or call content on their servers. Also they have a nice blog and seem to be a cool bunch of people :) go say hi.go try it out and let me know what you think in comments.