This weekend we updated our site and released our latest update.

This update comes with true PDF export, which means that the mind map is exported graphically into a PDF document. The previous implementation just exported the contents of the mindomo map.

Exporting to PDF gives you a huge advantage if you want to share your mindmaps with others who are offline and who don't know anything about mindmapping software or mindomo.

It also allows you to create high quality printouts.

However the current implementation has a couple of limitations:

- Asian characters are not supported yet

- Gradients, dashed lines are not supported yet

Except the above described limitations everything should work well.

Please note, that Mindomo Desktop was also updated and the new version will let you export to PDF even when you are not connected to our server.

For the detailed list of new features please consult our changelog

We hope you enjoy these exciting new features.

 Greetings, the Mindomo Team!

After several months of planning and work, today we have released our long-awaited offline version of Mindomo, called Mindomo Desktop.

Mindomo Desktop is designed for users who need to work both offline and online on their mind maps and to share them on the internet. The tool works as a traditional desktop application but with a subscription based business model.

The pricing is the same as for Mindomo Premium. Once a Mindomo user became a premium member he/she can take full advantage of both the Premium features of our online version and also to get access to a high-quality desktop mind-mapping application.

Mindomo Premium users will need to install Mindomo Desktop and login at least once with their premium account in order to activate the premium features. Maps can be opened both from an online account or locally from a computer and save as a local map or as an online map.

Currently exporting and importing from various file formats requires a connection to our server, the explanation is that this functionality was implemented on our server and up to this time we only finished porting the export TXT functionality to Mindomo Desktop.

Mindomo Desktop can be used by free users, but with limited functionality.

Free users can install and login from Mindomo Desktop to their online account, open a map and "Save as" locally for backup purposes, and they are allowed to open the maps from their desktop while they are offline to view it, however they won't be able to save the maps locally if the map was not opened from an online account.

We hope that you will enjoy using Mindomo Desktop !

Let us know your opinion and suggestion in this blog or in our forum !

Thank you,

The Midomo Team!

Since yesterday late evening till this morning we had a service outage.

The last 2 days we were experiencing problems from our service provider.

We are still waiting for clarification from their side.

In the meantime we apologize for any inconvenience caused.

The Mindomo Team

In October we will be present at the VizThink Europe conference held in Berlin, Germany.

October 12-14, 2008

Berlin, Germany

The conference is about bringing together people which are interested in visual thinking.

There will be lots of opportunities for hands on experiences, learning from industry gurus, and networking with your visual thinking peers.

We would be excited to meet you in person and we think this is a great opportunity to exchange ideas about Mindomo! Our customers are entitled to a 50 Euro discount, for more details please send us an e-mail at info[at]exswap.com

To register please go to http://www.vizthink.com/index.php?option=com_frontpagepro&Itemid=124

The Mindomo Team

This weekend we deployed another new update which contains a couple of new features and bugfixes.

- We added a direct method to upload images and insert them to topics (available to premium users only).

- We also added support for favicons (icons for the urls you add to topics), see the screenshot below:

- Added a new button to the formatting page which will allow to align the images: (top,left, right, bottom)

We also fixed some bugs like the autoresize bug which appeared whenever a map was zoomed to a very low value and the user clicked on expand/collapse.

This weekend we deployed a new update which contains a number of new features and bugfixes.

New features:

- Upload documents and attach to topics. Limited to 100MB/user (available for premium users only)

- Insert Video to topic

- Insert Audio to topic

   - The map canvas is automatically resized to contain all available topics

   - Translation to Chinese, Italian, Russian

Bugfixes:

- Fixed  FitMap functionality

- Improved performance of drawing curves.

    - Remember me at login didn't allow to logout

    - Many other small improvements and bugfixes

With this release we hope to satisfy the requests of teachers and trainers who wanted to have the possibility to combine Sound and Video into their MindMaps, in this way learning materials can be presented in a more vivid and attractive manner.

Video on topic:

 Uploading documents was also requested by a high number of users. Now you can upload documents, organize into directories and attach them to topics.

Multiple documents attached to one topic:

Topic features are extended with Multimedia and Attachments:

Enjoy,

The Mindomo Team.

Now that the Euro 2008 tournament is over, it is time for us to announce the winners of our competition.

Despite the fact that our little contest didn't attract many participants, we are really happy to congratulate the two users which have taken time to develop some really great and informative mind maps related to Euro 2008.

So here are the winners of the Euro 2008 competition:

1. First Prize and the winner of 1,5 years of Mindomo Premium subscription: 

    Run Reon, Map: http://www.mindomo.com/view.htm?m=9f32dcfcfd214b3da68f4bbd87cc5561

    Views: 282            Points based on views: (5 * 282)/500 = 2,82

                                  Points based on our evaluation: 5

    Total = 12,82

2. Second Prize and the winner of 1 year Mindomo Premium subscription: 

    Vang Vang, Map: http://www.mindomo.com/view.htm?m=beca81feaf8040b685ed0d02e63c1a30

    Views: 137           Points based on views: (5 * 137)/500 = 1,37

                                  Points based on our evaluation: 5

    Total = 11,37

Thank you for participating,

The Mindomo Team.

We love sports and competition, and now that EURO 2008 is about to start we thought we spread the fever !

That's why we come up with the idea of the Euro 2008 Mindomo Contest !

START:         Thursday, 5th June 2008

DEADLINE:   Monday, 30th June 2008

PRIZE:

Grand Prize:
    One and a half year of Mindomo Premium Subscribtion

2nd Prize:
    One year of Mindomo Premium Subscribtion

3rd Prize:
    Half a year Mindomo Premium Subscribtion

DESCRIPTION:
All you have to do is to create a mind map with Mindomo about the EURO 2008 championship and save it to the "Euro 2008" public folder.

Once you saved your map you are automatically qualified for the competition.

The map can be about anything related to the EURO 2008 championship, teams, players, matches, organisation, scheduling, etc..

TERMS AND CONDITIONS:

Every map participating in the contest will be given points based on it's rating, number of views and our opinion.

The winning maps will be the first 3 maps with the highest number of points.

The points will be given based on the following rules:

1. The map rating will be added to the points. Maps can have ratings between 0 and 5.

2. The map with the highest number of views will get 5 points, the rest of the maps will get their points proportionally related to the highest number of views and their own number of views.

3. We will give every map points between 0 and 5 based on the following evaluation criterias: the content, style and organisation of the map.

Sample calculations:

Map with highest number of views = 500. 

Map 1: 

    Rating 3,14            Points based on rating: 3,14

    Views: 132            Points based on views: (5 * 132)/500 = 1,32

                                  Points based on our evaluation: 5

Total = 9,46

Map 2: 

    Rating 4,20            Points based on rating: 4,20

    Views: 400            Points based on views: (5 * 400)/500 = 4

                                  Points based on our evaluation: 4

Total = 12, 20

The maps in the contest can be visualized at the following  link.

If you have questions please don't hesitate to ask!

The Mindomo Team.

We are looking for translators which can help us localize Mindomo to the following languages:

• French
• Japanese
• Spanish
  
• Dutch
  
• Portuguese

Translations to the following languages have already been completed or will be available soon:

• English
• German
• Swedish
• Italian
• Chinese
• Russian

Today we also updated our site again. This release contains  the following:

- Export to Microsoft Excel (XLS) (available only for premium users)

- Redesigned Mindomo Customer site (for Mindomo Business and Education)

- Bugfix: Making possible to show the search box during embedding

On Saturday May 10, we updated our servers with a new release.

This release has mostly bugfixes:

Bugfix: Sometimes changing password disabled the account.
Bugfix: Export options were not taken into consideration during exporting.
Bugfix: Deleting relationship made impossible to add new relationship.
Bugfix: Dialog launcher was not disabled when all maps where closed, which caused an exception.

However since then we had problems with our servers. The database server went down twice in 2 days.
This morning we made a new fix, but we are still investigating the causes of these problems.

You should know that during these downtimes you can leave your mind maps (in the Mindomo Editor) open and you can save it after the server is up. This way you will never loose your work.

Thank you for your understanding and we apologize for these downtimes.

 
The Mindomo Team.