22Jul
XING, Europe’s largest business networking site – the LinkedIn of Europe if you will – has just launched its own OpenSocial API, as reported by Techcrunch and others.
MindMeister application on XING
As you can see above (and may have guessed by now), MindMeister is one of 13 launch applications of XING’s new Partner Ecosystem. From today 7.5 million XING users will be able to add the MindMeister app at the click of a button to their homescreen and start creating and sharing mind maps with their XING contact network.
Sharing a map with XING contacts
We’ve been working on the integration for a few months now and thankfully finished in time for the launch, overcoming all kinds of technical and artistic issues (for instance, how do you combine the MindMeister Blue & Pink with XING’s green tones in a non-offensive way?).
There’s a dedicated “Templates” tab on the XING app that allows users to clone predefined template maps to their account. Templates are available for personal task management, meeting minutes, creation of a business plan or even making a SWOT analysis. There’s even a template map for creating your resumé as a mind map and then adding it to your public XING profile (see Till’s profile below).
Public XING profile with CV map
Existing MindMeister users can connect their account to XING and manage all their mind maps from the XING desktop. Also, all XING members get pretty nice discounts if they buy a full membership at MindMeister – 20% for XING premium users, 10% for free account holders. Read the full press release here.
15Jul
The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) has just named MindMeister as one of the “Top 25 Web sites for Teaching and Learning”, and we’re naturally chuffed about the news. The list is a new resource honoring the top twenty-five Internet sites for enhancing learning and curriculum development and is considered the “best of the best” by AASL. Nice 
The Top 25 Web sites for Teaching and Learning were named so because they foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation and collaboration. Other Web sites honored include: Diigo; Facebook; Google Reader; Ning; Second Life; Skype; Twitter; Wikispaces; Wordle; and Zoho.
You can find more details about the award on the AASL website, and here’s a link to our press release.
P.S. I know we don’t deserve an award for timely delivery of our iPhone app so please don’t comment on this – the app is scheduled to be submitted to the AppStore this week…
11Jul
We’ll be having a short scheduled downtime of our servers today Saturday July 11 at 8pm (UTC) for about one hour for a database upgrade, and www.mindmeister.com will be unavailable during this period. To figure out when we are offline in your time zone please consult timeanddate.com.
Sorry for any inconveniences.
Update: We are back after 45 minutes with a brand new database. Enjoy!
9Jul
Jolicloud, the new netbook OS by Netvibes founder Tariq Krim, has just released an improved alpha version for testing to a selected group of preview testers, and we’re very proud to be part of it: MindMeister comes preinstalled on the Jolicloud operating system – installed meaning that there’s a MindMeister icon in the Jolicloud application directory that brings you directly to the MindMeister site (soon also to a custom-built start page for Jolicloud users).
With the announcement of the Google Chrome OS there’s currently a lot of buzz around this topic and we believe that Tariq and his team have done an amazing job rethinking the overall layout of a desktop operating system for the Internet age (we’re not the only ones who think so, as proven by the recent $4.2m investment in Jolicloud by some major VCs).
Apart from MindMeister, many of the usual suspects are available on the Jolicloud desktop – Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Skype, Dropbox, MobileMe and many more. Take a look yourself at the Jolicloud tour or read their own announcement of the MindMeister integration.
