MyHippocampus - Mind Map Your Ideas » SuckyStartups

Your Hippocampus is the part of the brain that is important for learning and remembering things. MyHippocampus.com attempts to create a mind map which functions like an online web 2.0 hippocampus. The idea sounds cool, but when you see how they implemented it, it kinda makes you sick (literally, you may become sea sick!). It’s a giant ocean with a bunch of little islands, with each island representing a main thought or idea. You can zoom in on islands and they each host sub ideas and categories.
Pros:

They’ve implemented openid! THANK YOU!
Impressive Interface. Their interface is pretty sweet. You can zoom in with the scroll on your mouse and the AJAX is smooth. No flash here, some serious work went into this. I could never do anything like this.
Timelines. While they may be useless, they’re still cool.

Cons:

What’s the point? I mean, sure it’s cool to mindmap all your ideas but it is kind of pointless seeing how you would need to explore a hundred islands to put together a whole idea.
Crappy Interface. I know, I’m a hypocrite but seriously some parts of the interface could look better. Like the islands for example, jesus they looks horrible! Looks like a 2 year old scribbled in ~~Flash~~ Mspaint.
It takes forever to enter your data and if you’re not used to the interface, it takes even longer! Imagine entering every book you’ve read, every movie you’ve seen, and every city you’ve ever visited. Is it worth the pay off of a mind map and a couple timelines?

I leave you with some relevant links and a pretty funny quote from Jeff from MyHippocampus.com: