Web 2.0 mind-map, version v014

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July 26th, 2006

I’ve created yet another new version of my Web 2.0 mind-map; you can download the PDF file (4.01 megabytes) by surfing over to the downloads area of my website, or by clicking here. (8/1: I’ve deleted version v014, and replaced it with version v016, which you can download here.)

I’ve added another ten items to the previous version of the mind-map:

  1. I added a blog posting that describes a “Web 2.0 bookshelf” in the “miscellaneous books” branch of the “References” section of the mind-map.
  2. I added a link to the StumbleUpon site to the “reputation economy” branch of the “basic themes” page of the mind-map. This one is addictive: when you click on the “Stumble!” icon that gets installed in your Firefox browser, it pulls up random “recommended” web pages, according to topics of interest you’ve chosen. Photography is one of my favorite hobbies, and Stumbleupon has shown me some absolutely stunning websites of photographers I had never heard of. There are simple and convenient mechanisms for saving your favorite stumbled-upon pages, sharing them with stumble-friends (yes, it’s another networking site; I was invited to join this whole thing by someone in Albuquerque that I don’t even know), and emailing the URL’s to your non-stumble friends and family members.
  3. I added a link to Timeline in the “examples” sub-branch of the “Ajax” branch on the “Technology” page of the mind-map. Timeline is an Ajax widget for visualizing time-based events. Quite cool!
  4. I added a link to the “truth laid bear” blogsite, as another example of a GoogleMaps mashup. This one provides pushpin locations of current news events and local blogsites associated with the current Israel-Lebanon conflict.
  5. I added a link to a recent Pew survey describing the demographics of bloggers to the society/blogs sub-branch, within the “Introduction” page of the mind-map.
  6. I also added a link to the Technorati site in the seame society/blogs sub-branch, so people could go there and find out how many blogs there are at the present time (49.7 million at the moment this is being written).
  7. I added a link to Swarm, as a sub-branch of Digg, as one of the new startups in the Product/Vendors page of the mind-map. I’m not sure whether Swarm will survive or prosper, but it’s definitely different than all the other stuff out there. It’s … it’s… well, you’d better go there and see for yourself.
  8. I added a link to pbWiki to the “tools” branch of the “Wiki phenomenon” page, which is actually a sub-page of the top-level “Basic Themes” page. It joins JotSpot and Twiki as examples of Wiki tools.
  9. I added a link to a blog posting about the forthcoming arrival of an interface between Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2005 IDE, and the Ruby/Ruby-on-Rails development environment. You’ll find it in a new “tools” branch on Ruby, wh ich is part of th e “Technology” page of the overall mind-map.
  10. I added a link to a recent posting in Scobleizer’s blog, which contains good advice for Web 2.0 entrpreneurs who want to avoid the misery experienced by Web 1.0 startups at the end of the “bubble.” This has been placed in a new branch on strategies for startup companies, in the “Business Issues” page of the mind-map.

Yes, there’s still a lot more stuff to add, and new articles, product announcements, conferences, and blog postings are appearing every day on my Internet-wide scans for Web 2.0-related material … but, little by little, the mind-map is beginning to look more respectable. If nothing else, there are now a little over a hundred hyperlinks to various Web 2.0 resources, articles, and companies.

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