I’ve added some new links to interesting articles, analyses, guidelines, and other resources to my Web 2.0 mind-map. You can find it in the “downloads” section of my main web site at www.yourdon.com/downloads, or you can simply download the 7.1-megabyte PDF by clicking here.

Here’s a summary of what I’ve added to this version:

1. On the “Technology” page of the mind-map, I’ve added a link to an Infoworld article describing API’s that AOL is providing for websites to embed some of its AIM instant-messaging technology. This appears on the “AOL” sub-branch of the “API’s” branch.
2. Also on the “Technology” page, I’ve added a link to the Google Maps API page. This appears, as you might suspect, on the “Google” sub-branch of the “API’s” branch.
3. Also on the “Google” sub-branch of the “API’s” branch, on the “Technology” page, I’ve added a link to the “Google AJAX search API” page.
4. For completeness, I added a link to the Yahoo search API, on the “Yahoo” sub-branch of the “API’s” branch, on the “Technology” page.
5. On the “Conclusions” page of the mind-map, I’ve added a link to an October 17, 2006 CIO Insight article entitled “Bubble 2.0?” to an existing branch labeled “Assume it’s ‘real,’ even if over-hyped”
6. On the “Products/Vendors” page of the mind-map, I added a new branch entitled “Top Italian Web Apps,” with a link to a September 2006 blog posting with the same title, from a blog called “ReadWrite Web“. I’m presenting a Web 2.0 seminar in Rome in a couple days, and I thought it would be a good idea for the attendees to see some local exampes.
7. On the “Blogs” sub-branch of the “People Power/Employees” branch of the “Cultural Issues” page, I’ve added a link to an October 20, 2006 ABC News article entitled “Sudan Demands Apology from U.N. Envoy,” which states that “U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the world body has no formal communication from Sudan that [the chief U.N. envoy to Sudan] has been declared persona non-grata. The United Nations requires staff to get permission before publishing books but has no rules about blogs, he said. ‘There are no specific staff regulations on the use of personal blogs by U.N. staff members but we do expect those staff members to exercise proper judgment in what they include,’ Dujarric said.
8. On the “credibility of output” sub-branch of the “Risks” branch, on the “Wiki phenomenon” page, I’ve added a new sub-branch, with a link to an October 20, 2006 Macworld article entitled, “Wikipedia co-founder to launch competing project.” It discusses a “Citizen’s Compendium of Everything” site called Citizendium, which allows the general public to add and edit articles, but has a more disciplined review/editing process to help ensure a greater degree of accuracy and credibility.
9. On the “Introduction: What’s It All About?” page, there’s a branch labeled “Web 2.0: profound business, social, technology changes,” for which there’s a sub-branch labeled “Technology.” On that “Technology” sub-branch, I’ve changed an unadorned sub-sub-branch labeled “Perpetual beta” into a link to the Wikipedia article describing what “perpetual beta” is all about.
10. On the “Introduction: What’s It All About?” page, there’s a branch labeled “Web 2.0: profound business, social, technology changes,” for which there’s a sub-branch labeled “Business.” On the “Publishing” sub-branch of “Business”, I’ve changed an unadorned sub-sub-branch labeled “Book mashups” into a link to a blog called “if: book – A Project of the Institute for the Future of the Book.”

That’s all I’ve got time for now. More later…