I’m back from a one-week vacation on the beach, and I’ve got some updates to my Web 2.0 mind-map. As always, you can find the mind-map in the “downloads” section of my website, or by simply clicking on this link to download the 8.73 megabyte PDF file.

Here’s a summary of what I’ve added or modified since the last update:

1. On the “Technology” page, there’s a branch titled “Other enabling technology,” to which I’ve added a new sub-branch entitled “Yahoo Pipes.” It’s a link to a February 23, 2007 blog posting that I wrote about Yahoo Pipes.
2. I also put a link to the Yahoo Pipes blog posting on the “Basic Themes” page of the mind-map, as a sub-branch of the “Mashups” branch.
3. On the “Products/Vendors” page, I added a link to a February 26, 2007 Infoworld article the branch titled “Big Vendors.”
4. On the “Enterprise Web 2.0″ page, there’s a branch titled “Reactions and trends within large companies,” to which I added a new sub-branch titled “Social Networking as a Business Tool,” consisting of a link to a March 3, 2007 New York Times article entitled “Social Networking’s Next Phase.”
5. On the same “Enterprise Web 2.0″ page, I added a new major branch entitled “Government.” At the moment, it has one sub-branch, which consists of a February 24, 2007 SmartMobs blog posting about the use of Web 2.0 technologies by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency.
6. On the “Cultural Issues” page, there’s a branch titled “Generational Issues,” to which I’ve added a new sub-branch entitled “What Web 2.0 will mean for next generation of workforce.” It’s a link to a February 24, 2007 Information Week article with approximately the same title.
7. On the “Wiki Phenomenon” page, there’s a branch titled “Benefits,” one of whose sub-branches is titled “New labor supply: crowdsourcing,” and it has a sub-sub-branch titled “Hobbyists happy to work for free.” I’ve added a link to a BoingBoing blog posting about a Time article entitled “Getting Rich Off Those Who Work for Free.”
8. On the “Intro: What’s It All About?” page, I’ve got a branch titled “Definitions: What is Web 2.0?”, with a sub-branch that provides a link to the wonderful YouTube video titled “Web 2.0: The Web is (Us)ing Us.” I’ve now added a new sub-branch, with a link to John Battelle’s blog posting about his interview with the author of the YouTube video.
9. On the “Wiki Phenomenon” page, there’s a main branch titled “Tools,” to which I’ve added a new sub-branch called “Wikipatterns,” with a link to Luis Alvarez’s blog posting on that topic.
10. On the “Intro: What’s It All About?” page, there’s a branch/sub-branch thread titled “Web 2.0: profound business, social, technical technical changes/Society/Political Commentary,” to which I’ve added a new sub-sub-sub-sub-branch, entitled “Blog to America,” with a link to same.

As with previous versions of this mind-map, I simply typed all of the text and links — along with various graphics and JPEG images — into a mind-mapping tool called ConceptDraw MindMap. The 16-page mind-map was then exported to a PDF file, with all of the hyperlinks preserved. There are lots of other mind-mapping tools available; all you need to do is google the term “mindmap,” and you’ll get an enormous list of articles, tutorials, and “sponsored links” for various tools and products. And if you wonder why on earth I’m using a mindmap presentation, rather than Powerpoint, I invite you to read through my blog posting titled “Sayonara Powerpoint“.

I don’t have any additional links to add to this version 028 at the moment, but I’m sure more things will emerge in the coming weeks. I certainly don’t consider the mind-map “finished,” by any means, especially because the concept of Web 2.0 isn’t “finished” or “stable” yet; but the mind-map now has roughly 500 links to important resources, commentaries, and perspectives on what I consider to be the most important phenomenon since … well, since Web 1.0. I hope you find it useful.

Stay tuned…