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MindMap Viewer Plugin

Reading Time: < 1 minute After a little bit of tinkering around, I created a Firefox plugin for the MindMap Viewer. The plugin adds a right-click menu option. Whenever you right-click on a supported mindmap URL/link and select ‘View MindMap’, the mindmap viewer will be launched in a new window. Right-Click Context You can download from here, just make sure…
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The Web2.0 Bubble Has Arrived Folks

Reading Time: < 1 minute Three words….. Best Video Ever 😉

The Mindmapping Toolbox: 100+ Tools, Resources, and Tutorials

Reading Time: < 1 minute The BootStrapper Blog recently posted a comprehensive list of mind mapping tools, blogs, and tutorials. I’m happy to say I made the list (#78)! Eric Blue’s Blog: Blogger Eric Blue shares his thoughts and opinions on productivity, mind mapping, creativity, visualizations and more.

MindMap Viewer: Share and Embed Mind Manager Maps Today

Reading Time: 2 minutes Background Earlier in the year, I posted about the need for a common mind map file format. With the proliferation of the next-generation mind mapping applications (e.g. MindMeister, Mindomo, etc.), the need to import/export in a standard way and to share mindmaps easily is becoming critical. As I discussed in my earlier post, I’m a…
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Personal Learning Environments and Knowledge Management

Reading Time: 2 minutes For readers that know me, it’s not a stretch to say that I *love* learning new things. I’ve always been a bit of a self learner (autodidactic if you want to get technical), and a few years ago I started a search (a quest actually) for finding tools to help streamline the learning process. Over…
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gnizr: Open Source Semantic Del.icio.us With Mashup Capability

Reading Time: 2 minutes Wow, now that’s a tall order to fill! And, it appears that gnizr has delivered that order. Gnizr (short for organizer) is one of the latest additions to the Google code repository, and this code-base has been donated from Image Matters LLC. I haven’t had a chance to install yet, but from looking over the…
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Trends: The Semantic Web, Web2.0, and Social Networking

Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s obviously hard these days to ignore the Web2.0 phenomenon (although the term still causes me to cringe), and the labels given to the forthcoming Semantic Web (the “real” semantic web or web<put your version number here>). See Mike Bergman’s post Please, Squash that Web3.0 Cockroach if you want to gauge a common reaction to…
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24 Hours of Air Traffic Never Looked So Beautiful

Reading Time: < 1 minute Designer Aaron Koblin composited a day’s worth of FAA data to make some pretty fascinating (and deeply beautiful) animations. Source credit to NPR.

Outlining & Mind Mapping for the Semantic Web

Reading Time: < 1 minute This is truly a post that blends some of my major areas of interest: mind mapping, knowledge management, and the semantic web. Mind Raider is a unique and useful tool that brings a semantic twist to an outliner and knowledge management application. From the Mind Raider site: MindRaider is Semantic Web outliner. It aims to…
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Music and Life

Reading Time: < 1 minute A little bit of philosophy from Alan Watts…