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MicroHoo?

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is potentially the best analogy I’ve ever heard describing the possible Microsoft-Yahoo merger. “Imagine a circus act in which two enormous, clumsy, awkward elephants that don’t really like each other are supposed to mate while riding on skateboards. Now imagine that it is your job, you lucky bastard, to be one of the little…
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What’s Going On?

Reading Time: 2 minutesWow, it’s been a while since I’ve posted. In fact, this is the longest time I’ve gone without posting in the last 2 years! For all my regular readers, fret not, Eric has been busy and is doing well. I’ve been focused on work as of late, and my work/life balance has well…. been a…
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The Mindmapping Toolbox: 100+ Tools, Resources, and Tutorials

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe BootStrapper Blog recently posted a comprehensive list of mind mapping tools, blogs, and tutorials. I’m happy to say I made the list (#78)! Eric Blue’s Blog: Blogger Eric Blue shares his thoughts and opinions on productivity, mind mapping, creativity, visualizations and more.

Trends: The Semantic Web, Web2.0, and Social Networking

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s obviously hard these days to ignore the Web2.0 phenomenon (although the term still causes me to cringe), and the labels given to the forthcoming Semantic Web (the “real” semantic web or web<put your version number here>). See Mike Bergman’s post Please, Squash that Web3.0 Cockroach if you want to gauge a common reaction to…
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A Powerful New Year Message

Reading Time: < 1 minuteTony Robbins recently published a video titled “The 12 Tenets” with simple (but powerful) lessons for the new year. Check it out here!

MindMap Viewer Plugin

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfter a little bit of tinkering around, I created a Firefox plugin for the MindMap Viewer. The plugin adds a right-click menu option. Whenever you right-click on a supported mindmap URL/link and select ‘View MindMap’, the mindmap viewer will be launched in a new window. Right-Click Context You can download from here, just make sure…
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MindMap Viewer: Share and Embed Mind Manager Maps Today

Reading Time: 2 minutesBackground Earlier in the year, I posted about the need for a common mind map file format. With the proliferation of the next-generation mind mapping applications (e.g. MindMeister, Mindomo, etc.), the need to import/export in a standard way and to share mindmaps easily is becoming critical. As I discussed in my earlier post, I’m a…
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