Mapyourinfo is an on-line application for exploring Wikipedia through mind maps. It can do a creditable job of mapping a topic from a Wikipedia page, pulling the structure from the section headings and levels, much as WikiMindMap does.

It seems that once it did more, allowing you to upload your own FreeMind maps, but that does not work now.
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Project and to-do list management are related and major categories of use for mind maps in business.  This has resulted in a healthy market in add-ins for popular mind mapping software. MindManager was first to add project management data attributes, and several add-in companies have exploited the data to make our lives easier when we track our daily tasks and projects. Nick Duffill is an old hand in this field but
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Cacoo … cacoo. This web app has finally made its way into Mind-Mapping.Org. Cacoo is a neat browser-based diagrammer and it’s free (for now). It has 13 stencil sets with useful images and shapes covering basic shapes, balloons, arrows, office equipment, sitemap symbols, network components, flowchart symbols, office layout, people, smileys, an intiguing freehand wireframe, regular wireframe and UML symbols.
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New at Mind-Mapping.org: iThink. iThink This is a high-end business process-modelling tool.  It allows business scenarios to be played out in simulation before disaster hits – provided that is, you can predict  suitable dynamic variables to model.  What does that mean? Well here’s an example they give: “What if you radically increased sales and marketing efforts without adding network bandwidth? Website hits and download demands would go up (good), networks
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Mind-mapping.org‘s entry for DropMind was limited, and out of date because it went into the Master List almost 18 months ago.  Now they are on version 2.0 and I have updated the DropMind entry. [Update: I asked for some screenshots and DropMind sent me some - thanks!  Click on the thumbnails to see the full-sized ones.] Vic Subscribe to the RSS feed for regular posts & follow me on Twitter for
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Something out of the line of regular mapping software this week: Crystal Mapping, with free or premium options. Crystal Mapping This works in concentric circles and allows each circle to be subdivided.  That produces a strict hierarchy, with each sector associated with a parent that is the sector of an inner circle that it touches.  Sectors are dynamic and accept links, notes and attachments.  Like many things, its so much
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