See the updates to this story at the end – it’s fascinating! Have you seen MindMapr, or the web site http://free-mindmapping.com/tool/? I was preparing an entry about these for mind-mapping.org and found an interesting tale. MindMapr is a Google Chrome browser app that lets you make maps without being on line.  Free-mindmapping.com is a site that lets you do the same, but with any HTML5-capable browser. These two look so
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I added Ikonmap to Mind-mapping.org a few months back, but only now am I blogging about it. Ikonmap is an online, Flash-based mapper so it runs in your browser, but it is not collaborative software – there’s no multi-person editing.  You can’t even share a map for viewing online. It is free, so I mustn’t be too critical but there’s not much that can be done to make a map
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MindV is a new browser-based mind mapper that uses Silverlight. It has a ribbon interface and a surprisingly good selection of mind mapping functions for a version 1.0 product, with new features promised (more later). There are one or two rough edges, but the user interface and feel when editing maps already make it more like a desktop product.

It should be useful for project management – basic task information and other items can be stored with each node … (read the full article…)

Version 2.4 of Dropmind is out with updates in both the web and desktop versions. The word is that the Dropmind iPad version is with Apple awaiting approval.

New in DropMind Desktop are MS Excel import/export; multi-touch support; insert spreadsheet; MS Office 2003/2010 support.

And in Dropmind web version, Integration with Google Sites; voting on topics; a new ribbon design; and map from topic. … (read the full article…)

On-line diagramming service Creatley has just released a desktop application running in Adobe Air that mirrors the functions of its browser-based tool.

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New in Mind-mapping.org are two tools to help show related web sites with their connections shown visually: Pearltrees and Trailmeme. Just the kind of stuff we like!

Their purposes are closely related, and that prompted me to take a broader look in this post at the ‘map the web’ scene and three quite different approaches, by adding SpicyNodes. These offer a useful improvement on simple lists or even outlines.

VivaMind is a browser-based application for making mind maps (kinda – or bubble charts). It allows you to add text, video, image and code attachments to nodes. The control to add images and videos includes a nice little Google / YouTube search box to help locate suitable material.  Each node can also be set up to take you to a web page. It’s not clear what the code attachments can
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One of today’s additions to Mind-Mapping.Org is a web site, the other a tool for web builders.  And the first is built with the second. TweetPlumb Key a search term into TweetPlumb and it will pull out recent tweets that match the term, analyse them, and show you how they are connected with extracted terms and Tweeple. See it on line here and try it with your own search terms.
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Think Think is a Free Web App created using HTML5, Django, Google App Engine, and jQuery.  In Think you can create and view mind maps that are called thoughts. Touted as a mind mapping application, as can be seen from the screenshot, this supports concept mapping structures that depart from mind mapping’s hierarchical form. GraphMind GraphMind is a Drupal module (Drupal is a Content Management System).  Notable is the fact
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I have just added an online chart maker and a mind map building component for developers to mind-mapping.org. DIY Chart DIY (Do it yourself) Chart is a web-based tool that lets users make charts from static or dynamic data.  It operates on-line and responds dynamically to changes in the data, without a need to reload the web page.  These are just a few of the chart-styles available: The charts/graphs can be generated using
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