Quite a few months ago, Eric Blue called for a mind maps standard format.  Nothing much seemed to come out of that for a while, so I started gathering together in one place enough information to make it possible to have some form of transfer using XSLT.  I have a good collection of this information now, and will be publishing that soon. 
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Singapore has claimed that a two-tennis-court sized mindmap all about Singapore itself, is the world’s largest: http://blogist.wordpress.com/2007/11/17/worlds-largest-mind-map-unveiled/ There are hints of an even larger one (“well over the size of a football field”) here: http://pkab.wordpress.com/2007/11/13/capturing-the-second-life-worlds-information-in-one-giant-map/ but that’s in Second Life, so it’s virtual.  I’d call that pushing the claim a bit, wouldn’t you? Vic

The results of Chuck Frey’s latest mind mapping survey are out.  This one was about web-based mind mapping applications.  It was aimed at learning how the mind mapping community uses them and looking at how we view their advantages, disadvantages and potential. This is a formative stage of mind mapping software development, and this collation of views will undoubtedly be useful to the
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Our friends at ConceptDraw* have just announced an interesting new site for sharing mind maps over at mindmappedia.com (mindmapwiki.com takes you to the same place). They accept maps in many file formats, not just their own ConceptDraw.  MindManager, VisualMind, NovaMind, MindGenius, iMindMap and FreeMind maps can all be submitted.  You can also submit mind maps in image form, including
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I really liked a slideshow that comes from a group at the Open University, UK, so I did a write-up to alert like-minded thinkers.  It’s about different forms of visualizing information, knowledge, argument, debate and evidence.  I’ve done a quick write up in my Seminal papers in information mapping section of mind mapping articles. Favourite moment? This
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Users of MindMeister (well, Premium users, anyway) now have the option to take their mind maps offline: http://www.mindmeister.com/services/tools/offline This long-anticipated addition to web-based applications’ capabilities will surely have to be emulated by the other web-based mind mapping software developers.  Then, can the publishers of all the desktop mind mapping software packages afford to be left behind? Vic

Last weekend, I though I’d pretty well cleared the decks for a while in the search to report information mapping software.  Wrong again.    Protégé-Frames – This is the main component of Stanford University’s Protégé knowledge modeller.  It supports  a knowledge model which is compatible with the Open Knowledge Base Connectivity protocol (OKBC).   It was originally developed to model knowledge in biomedicine, but it is now used in many diverse areas such as intelligence
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