I’ve created yet another new version of my Web 2.0 mind-map; you can download the PDF file (6.96 megabytes this time) by surfing over to the www.yourdon.com/downloads area of my website, or by clicking here.

I’ve added several new items to the previous version of the mind-map:

1. I created a new sub-branch of “Examples” on the “Long-Tail” page of the mind-map, and added a link to an interesting article showing how the long-tail concept applies to the appropriate investment of time and energy designing the home-page for a web-site, as compared to the hundreds, or thousands, of other pages on the site.
2. I added a new branch on the “Trends” page, with a link to an article summarizing Gartner’s view of imminent Web 2.0 trends.
3. I added a new sub-branch, entitled “Developing an enterprise Web 2.0 strategy” to the existing branch entitled “Recommended strategies for ‘traditional’ companies,” on the “Business Issues” page of the mind-map, with a link to an interesting article about enterprise Web 2.0 strategies, written by Dion Hinchcliffe, who is chairing an upcoming Web 2.0 conference called The New New Internet (which I’ll be attending). I also added the same link to the “Articles” page of the mind-map.
4. I added another new sub-branch, entitled “A Microsoft perspective on business opportunities for Web 2.0″ to the existing branch entitled “Recommended strategies for ‘traditional’ companies,” on the “Business Issues” page of the mind-map, with a link to a blog entry from Microsoft’s Michael Platt.
5. I added a new sub-branch to the “Reactions and trends within large companies” branch, on the “Business Page,” with a link to a recent blog posting by Sun’s CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, explaining why he feels it’s so important for everyone in a company, from the CEO on down, to blog about what’s going on, and to facilitate open communications with customers and the marketplace.
6. I added a sub-sub-branch to the “political commentary” sub-branch, within the “Society” branch on the “Intro: What’s It All About?” page. It contains a link to a blog entry that Howard Rheingold describes as “smartmobbing Congressional corruption,” which helps identify and publicize some 1,800 otherwise-hidden “earmarks” that are buried within Congressional funding legislation.
7. On the “Microsoft” sub-branch of the “Big Vendors” branch of the “Products/Vendors” page, I added a link to a page on Microsoft’s Windows Live Spaces site that introduces a new blogging tool called Windows Live Writer. I also added a sub-sub-branch with a link to Computerworld’s review of the product.
8. Also on the “Products/Vendors” page, I added a new branch with a link to a blog describing the top 20 UK Web 2.0 products, as of August 7, 2006.
9. I added a new sub-branch to the “predicting the future is hard” branch, on the Trends page; it’s a link to a blog posting by Steve Borsch, commenting on how one should go about predicting the future of Web 2.0.
10. On a sub-sub-branch of the “Big Vendors/Apple” branch of the “Products/Vendors” page, I added a link to a blog posting claiming that Apple’s forthcoming (spring 2007) operating system, Leopard, will have a wiki server built in, so that intranet groups can quickly and easily create their own wiki. The blog claims that this is part of the detailed Leopard “preview” announcement on Apple’s website, but I was unable to find it for confirmation.

I’ve got about another two dozen Web 2.0-related articles and blog postings to review, plus another 100 unread blog RSS feeds that have arrived during the afternoon; so I’m sure there will be lots more to add. But for now, this will have to do…