XMind 3 Goes Broad and Deep, Extends Into Online Sharing
Shen Zhen - November 13, 2008 -- XMind, a leader in mind mapping, visual thinking and collaboration software, today announced XMind 3, a major release of its award-winning product. With the goal of making XMind more accessible to a broader audience and more powerful for professional users, XMind is making avaiable both a royalty-free open source edition, XMind 3, and a subscription-based professional edition, XMind Pro 3. Both editions are also enabled for online sharing and collaboration via XMind Share, a new website which allows XMind users to share their mind maps and other visual thinking content in a Web 2.0 style online community.
"We are really pumped up about this new release, and we think users of visual thinking and office productivity tools will be too," said Brian Sun, Founder and CEO of XMind. "Mind mapping is growing in popularity among knowledge workers, but until now, the tools available were either quite expensive or limited in functionality for the average user. With XMind 3, users get a rich set of mind mapping features for free and can easily share their content on the Web via XMind Share. XMind 3 is also a great choice for developers who want to incorporate mind mapping functionality into their applications and/or extend the features of XMind. For an annual subscription fee of just $49, users get even more powerful and cool features with XMind Pro 3, including the ability to do private sharing on the Web."
XMind 3 carries forward the award-winning and critically acclaimed feature base of XMind 2008, including creation of mind maps, incorporation of various markers and attachments, the ability to drill down and drill up on a mind map, and the ability to import other types of mind maps and export to various image formats. Mind maps created in XMind 3 can also be uploaded to the XMind Share website, shared with other users on the site, tagged, and embedded, bookmarked or posted to other sites. "XMind Share will be a content sharing community website for mind maps in the spirit of YouTube for videos, Flickr for photos, and Slideshare for slide presentations," said Sun.
For power users of mind mapping and office productivity tools, XMind Pro 3 provides a number of advanced features, including audio recording, presentation mode, online search, and a variety of analytical chart formats, the latest a Gantt view for project management and milestone tracking. With XMind Share, XMind Pro users can restrict access to their online mind maps and share only with designated contacts. "Private sharing makes a lot of sense for project teams who want to share and collaborate on a brainstorming session or task information captured in a mind map," said Sun.
Pricing and Availablility
XMind 3 and XMind Pro 3 are available immediately from the XMind website for Windows, Macintosh and Linux platforms.
XMind 3 is provided royalty-free under two different open source licenses: the Eclipse Public License ("EPL") v 1.0 and the GNU Lesser General Public License ("LGPL") version 3. Source code for XMind 3 is freely downloadable from XMind website.
XMind 3 Pro is provided on a subscription basis for $49/year per individual user. Multiple subscription discounts are also available. For the latest pricing, go to Purchase Page.
About XMind
XMind provides visual thinking and collaborative software solutions and services for brainstorming, idea capture, content sharing, and project management. In March 2008, XMind won the Eclipse Foundation Community Technology Award for Best Commercial Rich Client Application based on Eclipse software development technology. For more information, visit www.xmind.net.
