This post has found a new home on QOMPUTE.NET http://www.qompute.net/2007/10/web-20-exploration-continues-on-my-blog.html So rather than checking out 1moment.org, which is still my personal blog, i invite you to follow this discussion on qompute.net.  A particularly interesting and more recent (Nov 09) post on that subject is the exhaustive list of web based group applications and services.

This has been an attempt to create a syndicated blog. There are a few examples of topic driven blogs, but to become a serious player, the blog needs frequent postings. Therefore I decided to move the blog discussion to my blog on 1moment.org (also wordpress.com). qompute.net.

Thanks for commenting here, hope to see you again on 1moment.org qompute.net Moritz

here we go: mindomo.

The maps look nice, you can share the mindmaps youtube style, including ranking them.  Nice touch.  Will have to check mindomo out and compare them to the other online mindmappers.

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This post has found a new home on QOMPUTE.NET http://www.qompute.net/2007/07/it-doodle-ah-doddle.html

I love doodle.ch.   A great way to prepare meetings.  Easy to use, no signup required, it’s a doddle.  A no-brainer.

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This post has a new home on QOMPUTE.NET: http://www.qompute.net/2007/06/how-to-make-money-from-web-based.html

See also for a comprehensive list of web services for groups this article started in Nov 2009: http://www.qompute.net/2009/11/exhaustive-list-of-web-based-group.html

Ha, the 64.000$ question. (btw: who came up with that amount? )

Looking at the online MindMappers, including another entrant called comapping .com, the most interesting distinction between the contestants is the business model. Mind42 is still beta and MindMeister offers free basic functionalities plus a premium service. Comapping only offers a 30 day free trial period…

Comapping is cheaper than Mindmeister and more in line with what I would be prepared to pay for a service.

I like the WordPressmodel, to offer very good free services, no intrusive or annoying advertising and really fair upgrade prices, for example to finetune the CSS or publish the blog under your own domain name. All that for a reasonable price: 10$ per year here and 15$ per year there. Same for flickr: 25$ per year is fair and square, I wouldn’t pay more.

The comapping model (no free services) works best, when a unique service is offered, but obviously this is not the case anymore. Mindmeister on the other hand is having great basic features for free, but the upgrade subscription price is quite heavy. I am curious about mind42…

To marketeers and investors, it always looks attractive to offer those monthly yearly subscritions from 5 Eur per month. But those monthly payments quickly add up, particularly for small companies with employees. To me reasonable seems to be up to 25$ per year for essential services, mindmapping should cost the same, maybe even less.

We love using Freemind, it’s pretty stable, quick, versatile and runs on all major OSes (Mac, Linux and Windoze). Freemind keeps improving and looks better and better..

Now welcome the online collaborative mind mapping: on one side we have Mind42.com using Google talk and on the other side we have MindMeister.com using Skype.  Why not using the an online version of FreeMind?  It’s Java.

We’ll check them out and compare them to FreeMind. More soon.

IBM’s latest groupware/collaboration/community platform is called ThinkPlace. This type of software or service is nowadays called “social software“. Follow the link for more and sign up.

We have signed up… More later.

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… but hopefully soon.  Another video I like to recommend and therefore publish here to make my life easier.  Most viewers immediately gather how it worls and what the gestures of the presenters can do  – despite the incredible speed of the presentation  That alone should tell us that this interface is much more intuitive than anything currently on the market.

BTW – when posting the youtube clip I just realized that the wordpress developers have greatly eased the video publishing.  I always had trouble with those square brackets on y Mac.  Thanks guys.

Please find this post on our new home

… because I never find it when I need it. OK it’s here somewhere or here directly. Is Flickr any good for photos. Course it is, I have an account there. How are the competitiors? Don’t know. Zooomr seems in permanent beta stage, or is that alpha? Of course there are plenty of others, even Google upgraded it’s Picasa service. You now have 1GB free, which is a lot really. Well let’s wait and see – for now Flickr looks and feels better for sharing.

Oh, forgot to write, that the flickr badge doesn’t work with wordpress.com.  There is however a flickr widget, unfortunately less flexible.  But hey, who is complaining?

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