TheBrain 10 released

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 5, 2018 at 05:16 PM

As far as I understand, TheBrain has not patented the concept of interconnected information items, but the specific visualisation of those interconnections. I don’t know to which extent this limits other similar visualisations, but I know of at least two more products: Thinkmap, which drives https://www.visualthesaurus.com/ and can be licensed to developers for their own applications; and Inxight StarTree—Inxight is now owned by SAP which is to use the technology in its own products. Others have been mentioned here as well, e.g. used in visualising molecular models.

As far as I know, TheBrain is the only such application which is consumer-targeted, and is directly integrated with the file system, ready to use.

Dr Andus wrote:

>This is a pity because the idea itself doesn’t seem that
>revolutionary: essentially it’s Tim Berners-Lee’s idea of
>hypertext and hyperlinks, so I don’t get how that could be even
>patented.
> >Is there anything out there that emulates this model and is more
>useable, or is this a monopoly “take it or leave it”
>situation?