MAPMYself

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MAPMYselfis an online service for creating hand-written mindmaps, visualization of IDeaS, and their presentations in Web. Formerly known as Mapul, this project was created using Microsoft Silverlight 3.0.

History

Mapul 1.0

The first version of Mapul was created on 17 May, 2007 with a moment of mapul.com domain was registered. Mapul was based on Microsoft Silverlight 1.0. Service contained set of lacks and mistakes, however after the publication of clause AbOUT Mapul an article by Chuck Frey (blogger and books author about mind mapping ), the project begins becomes recognized. It was the initial stage of becoming of the project which proceeded up to the end of 2007 and has come to the end with creation of version 2.0.

Mapul 2.0

For that moment service has some interesting features, among which, hand-written style of mindmaps and the multilingual interface. The text repeats the form of branches that looks interestingly enough and has no for that moment of analogues among a web of appendices of such type. Multilangual allows to create a mind maps even in the Arabian language. From essential lacks users marked absence of an opportunity of collective creation of maps and absence of an opportunity of recoil of the proexhausted operation that was extremely inconvenient. Also on a site is absent what or the help information on a product. Since October, 2008 project Mapul 2.0 has been temporarily frozen, paid registration and service has been closed has temporarily ceased to be commercial.

Further the project participated in competition Silverlight European Challenge organized by company Microsoft, and has won the Russian stage of competition.

MAPMYself 1.0 (aka Mapul 3.5)

mindmap sample made with MAPMYself mapmyself.com

Since November, 2008 there is a development of the new version of the project under a new name - MAPMYself. Date of an output of first version MAPMYself (on July, 10th, 2009) coincides with an output of the third version of release of Microsoft Silverlight on the basis of which it and is realized at the moment.

From novelties it is necessary to note that in MAPMYself there was an opportunity of recoil of the made operation, the miltiline text, an opportunity to keep and open the mind maps from a hard disk of the personal computer and set of other features useful for mindmappng. One interesting feature of service is that it can be established directly on the personal computer directly from a browser and in the further to function without its participation. It became possible owing to occurrence in Microsoft Silverlight 3.0 technologies Out-Of-Browser, allowing to create appendices of such type. Except for that developers have made possible use of service without registration in a demonstration mode. This mode can be started even if service is established in the form of out-of-browser appendices and at absence ACTIVE the Internet of connection. One more novelty becomes a mind map Viewer, allowing to look the mind map created in MAPMYself and to spend step-by-step presentation of mind map in online. The Viewer works in all cores the Internet browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera and Mozilla Firefox. Lack is that service supports only two languages of creation intelligence of maps: mainly English and Russian. Service it is high-grade it is supported by browser Microsoft Internet Explorer. Browsers Opera and Mozilla Firefox have the limited support of the tool. At the moment service is in a stage of the testing opened an alpha.

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