Here’s the latest on Mind-mapping.org updates: MyThoughts A Mac mind mapper with an elegant and flexible organic appearance. Pathway Makes a graphical “network” representation of your visited article pages on Wikipedia. A node represents an article, a connection between two nodes shows your ‘pathway’ from one to the other. You can save these networks. Not to be confused with Wikimindmap which produces a mind map from a specified Wikipedia page. Thinking
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New at Mind-mapping.org this week: Google Wonder wheel Shows search-result topics as a simple information map, with the usual detailed search results alongside.  To use it, search on your chosen term. Just above the results (and probably ads), you’ll see a link + Show options…  Click on that and select Wonder wheel from the list on the left hand side.  Click on the text on the wheel’s spokes to expand
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A serious challenger to existing iPhone mind mapping apps swam into my view today: iFreeMind. The site says “iFreeMind is a native software on iPhone for reading, showing and modifing the files created by FreeMind, and also for creating, writing the FreeMind compatible format files.” This appears to hold an impressive hand of FreeMind capabilities and sets the bar for other iPhone apps to beat: Icons; detailed colour control; built in help
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A new mind mapping application for the iPhone (OS 3.0 required) has just appeared. It’s a FreeMind look-alike and boasts compatibility with FreeMind files. To an extent that’s true: I can make a mind map and export it via email to a PC and open it in FreeMind. $2.99 won’t buy a lot of software, of course, but this one is very limited.  Central node, branches out, all one colour,
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In the big-screen world of computers there is a seemingly endless supply of developers keen to give us mind mapping software.  Are we going to see a repeat on the iPhone and iPod Touch? A few days ago there was MindMaker (US$5) - the first contender.  It has some way to go, but does show promise and they have a roadmap.  Its most obvious limitation is that it does not provide a landscape view
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