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San Jose, California, March 1st, 2010 – CS Odessa released a version of its mind mapping tool for Google Wave. This is a no charge add-in to Google Wave that can be used as part of Google Wave to map out a strategy rapidly or brainstorm on a critical topic. The ConceptDraw MindWave for Google Wave tool allows teams to collaborate on a mind map in an interactive flowing manner building a map structure that represents the planned work. The map add-in supports Google Wave playback that allows one …

As I write this short article I am extremely excited with what I am looking at inside the Comapping application. The Contextual Organizer cloud app has recently been added to the interface. It’s merely a test at this time, and is in beta mode.
I am very happy to see a contextual analysis tool included with Comapping. This will be invaluable for cutting through document and web page overload.
The bottom line is, we have an excellent marriage of a very effective process approach to information management in the Comapping …

Hypershifters experts discovered  some interesting visualization and infographics on the web. Especially one of the Internet itself, please see below. Please find a selection of other:

An overview of  markt shares of webbrowsers, via Axiis
Visual Resume, via Fastcompany
Webtrends of 2009, via InformationArchitects
Best movies, via dataviz
Is Bottled Water Really That Bad? Yes, via Fastcompany

Created by Online Education
Did you discover any interesting visualizations, please let us know…

I seem to be pleasantly and very willingly diverted into conducting interviews of late. It’s a very enjoyable experience, as it places the interviewer and interviewee in a very intellectually intimate position of acceptance and trust.
John England the founder of Mindsystems is the consummate professional. I have known John for a relatively short span of time, and in this period he has indeed enabled me to glean much from his illustrious past relating to his careers. John has worn a few hats, and has performed his tasks with great success …

Google has been around for only 11 years. In this 2 minute video which is published by the Google Channel UK on Youtube one gets a nice overview on the history of Google and the launch of its services. This overview is presented in a chronological way. This video ends with the recently launched beta of Wave.

The video ends with: “What next?” What will be the next service of Google? Please leave your ideas below.

Wallace Tait and Brian Friedlander
Web 2.0 has certainly made a significant impact on the ways we now create, manage and exchange information and knowledge. Collaboration is indeed the corner stone for real time communications within personal, academic and business arenas while using web 2.0 (Cloud) applications.
We have simply been given much more flexibility through the use of cloud computing.
Regarding Visual mapping; cloud collaboration has exponentially increased the potentials for being more effective and productive. The cloud can become a repository (Data bank) for storing and sharing much of your information …

The media landscape is changing. The fourth version of Did You Know 4.0 or “Shift Happens” includes facts and statistics focusing on the changing media landscape, including convergence and technology. XPLANE developed this video in partnership with The Economist.
What are your thoughts on the data and statistics presented in this video? Please share it with other readers.

Personas is part of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. The web services uses a sophisticated natural language processing algorithms to create a detailed, visual data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity.
In a nutshell: Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.
How does it work? Simply enter your name in this website. To create the portrait Personas makes use of the information available of one persons name on the web. It uses that information to characterize the person and …

Does the image above overwhelm you? Well, the choice of software for the Information manager can indeed be overwhelming.
The collage contains a selection of software apps that are IMO worth the investigation. They are important enough to be termed the leading pack of the mind, visual and knowledge management software arena. Simply Google the names in the collage and you’ll get more info.

Hypershifters selected some of the links to interesting content on the web of the past week. Content consists visuals and video’s. Please let us know what you think of these links…

TED Video: Tom Wujec on 3 ways the brain creates meaning, 17 mins
Information designer Tom Wujec talks through three areas of the brain that help us understand words, images, feelings, connections. In this short talk from TEDU, he asks: How can we best engage our brains to help us better understand big ideas?
Visualizations: Gapminder A visual fact based world view, …