As the Web 2.0 thing plays itself out, spreading into all available niches much like Darwin’s finches, mindmapping online is getting the biz. I’m a confirmed FreeMind [1] user — that free, cross-platform Java-based mind map that does pretty much all that I need when I want to construct a mostly hierarchical model of something, that I’ve talked about [2] before — but there’s no harm in checking out the online competition.
Web Worker Daily has done a review of all four of the newbies, three of them (bubbl.us [3], Mindomo [4], MindMeister [5]) together [6] and then Kayuda [7] by itself [8].
None of them (yet) does what FreeMind and it’s pricier commercial alternatives does, but Kayuda comes closest, perhaps. So for that time when you want collaborative brainstorming among folks who are not able to reach the same whiteboard or flip chart, you might want to take a quick look at these, add them to your box of tools, and haul one out at the right moment to amaze the crowd and consolidate your rep as the firm’s go-to person for IT.