Coccinella is a Jabber client with a whiteboard. The whiteboard is a shared desktop which supports text, drawings, images, and multimedia in a number of formats, such as MP3 and video. It runs in two main modes, a peer-to-peer configuration and a mode compatible with the Jabber Instant Messaging system. A flexible plugin architecture may be used to support additional formats.

This is a whiteboard application that is also a full featured Jabber client for instant messaging. Use it to communicate text, drawings, images, mp3, and any QuickTime content in real time.

Coccinella is a free software client for the Jabber/XMPP instant messaging protocol. It is written in Tcl/Tk, and runs on a range of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Solaris and Windows. Mats Bengtsson released in 1999 the first version of the program Whiteboard.

A genus of small beetles of many species. They and their larvæ feed on aphids or plant lice, and hence are of great benefit to man. Also called ladybirds and ladybugs.