Some new information organizing and visualization software for you.  Things got behind as I put together the web-based mindmappers reference pages (see my post of 14th December, 2007) and continued working on the interoperability reference resource.  The web-based one is done, as previously announced here, and the interop one is approaching first publication.  But the entries for the mind mapping software database kept piling up, so I had a clear out
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You know all those web-based mind mapping applications?  Well, I’ve been happily digging around for the past couple of weeks and putting all the information together and at last it’s published.  Now you can see at one web site which applications are totally free or, for the subscription ones, what you get for their free limited option. Here’s the front page: http://www.mind-mapping.org/web-based-mindmappers/ The pages show which ones are absolutely free, the costs and options for the subscription
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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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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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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

I’m adding this one to Mind-mapping.org as part of this weekend’s update, but I want to put the word out now: Mappio – it’s at mappio.com - will take a lightly indented text file and make a mind map from it.  The text must be formatted according to some simple guidelines and the indents show structure.  For now, the maps are limited in many ways, but it is a very interesting approach to
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This weekend’s update to Mind-mapping.org brings a lively and colourful new mind-mapping product, Cayra; VORG Express, a free information manager; and a development platform for throw-away web applications that revolves around a MindManager mind map. Cayra - This is an attractive program, free for now, that produces colourful maps that don’t have to represent a pure hiearchy.  It can therefore produce a limited form of concept map as well as mind maps. [Update
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There are some useful comments about bubble.us here: Mind Mapping Software – Fast, Free, Simple, Online. The reviewer Dane Morgan says “But most of all I like that the maps it produces look like mind maps look in my mind.”  I would add that it’s also able to produce concept maps of a sort – a network rather than a hierarchy. I’ve added the link to the bubbl.us review entry
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This weekend’s new entry to Mind-mapping.org is WiseMapping, another web-based, on-line mind mapping tool. This is in a very early stage of development, so it would be premature to make any judgement, but it shows no distinguishing features yet.  It promises linking of documents to a map and sharing finished maps, but does not make clear if collaborative working will be supported. I’ll be tracking progress from time to time and will
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Mindomo – the web-based mind mapping service that has been on www.mind-mapping.org since early May – just announced that they are out of Beta and publicly available. And it’s still free (with ads) for up to 7 maps. There’s a US$6/month ‘Premium’ version, that: Is advertisement-free Has a secure connection (https) to their server [important if you're using this for business] Can export maps in Mindjet’s MindManager™ format  [no FreeMind ]
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