According to a report on Web 2.0 blog Mashable.com, Mead Corporation recently launched a new web-based mind mapping tool for students called MeadMap. The technology for MeadMap is provided by Comapping, which entered into a strategic relationship with Mead to provide a web-based visual mapping tool for the education market.
The interface looks just [...]

During the last year or so, I have maintained an extensive chart that compares the features of 22 desktop mind mapping programs. Normally, I only make this available as a bonus report for my e-books. But because it has generated such strong interest from so many people, I have decided to make it available [...]

Dave Gray, the CEO of XPLANE, has launched a multi-part "Visual Thinking School" on Squidoo. It consists of a series of "lenses" (resource pages) that together form a "mini-course" on various facets of visual thinking, including:

An introduction to visual thinking
Visual communication skills - how to make your messages more clear, concise and consistent
Visual vocabulary [...]

After several months of silence, Stefan Schuster, the developer of Mind42, recently posted an update to his blog about this web-based mind mapping application. After working his way through some server issues, he has returned to developing new features for Mind42, which he hopes to move out of beta testing in the near future. [...]

Developer Codemart GmbH announced the launch of MindMeister 2.0 yesterday. MindMeister has been one of the most popular web-based mind mapping tools since its introduction in 2007. This new version of the application includes many new features, plus a new Team Edition. Here’s a summary of what’s new in MindMeister 2.0:

Task support: Topics can [...]

MatchWare, the developers of the excellent OpenMind 2 for Windows, recently launched a Mac OS X version of their flagship mind mapping software program. It appears to have all of the features and functionality of the Windows version, including export to Microsoft Word, HTML websites and an interactive Timeline view. OpenMind Mac Edition is [...]

For the past several weeks, a select group of MindManager users (including yours truly) got to participate in the first phase of a private beta program for Mindjet Connect, a new online collaboration tool that will allow MindManager 7.2 users to create secure workspaces and share their maps and attached files with others. Mindjet [...]

I recently discovered a mind mapping program for Lotus Notes that integrates project management tools to an extent that I have never seen before. MindPlan was created by a German developer, Haus Weilgut, and it makes project management tools like GANTT charts, milestones, resource allocation and progress tracking an integral part of the application, [...]

Mango Software has just announced the launch of XMIND 2008 version 2.3, which enables XMIND users to import maps from MindManager, as well as export XMIND maps to the native MindManager file format. According to the updates page, apparently XMIND could import MindManager files before, but not without some problems. The process has been [...]

Cayra.NET, a developer of a new mind mapping/concept mapping application, has just announced the availability of a Cayra maps online viewer. At first, I thought this was an application that allowed anyone to view Cayra maps, even if you don’t have the program. But in reality, it appears to be an online repository, where [...]