DigiSpoke

Awesome Concept!

Botched Up Execution!

Using mind-maps for project planning is such a great idea especially for visual thinkers and planners. And these guys claim to offer free of charge, their service.

However, poking around their website reveals that the free tier is somehow hobbled. But no clear information is available without actually signing up for the free trial. Not a very trust-invoking marketing tactic, I feel.

Oh, and going through their terms of service reveals, I quote:

"You retain full ownership to your Content, but you agree to grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, irrevocable, transferable, perpetual, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, edit, translate, make derivatives, display and distribute such Content in connection with providing the Service to you and other users in accordance with your settings on the Service. In connection with providing the Service, we may modify or adapt your Content in order to transmit, display or distribute it over computer networks and in various media and/or make changes to your Content as are necessary to conform and adapt that Content to any requirements or limitations of any networks, devices, services or media.

We reserve the right at all times, but are not obligated, to remove or refuse to distribute any Content on the Service including your Content. We also reserve the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose any information as we reasonably believe is necessary..."

Probably more restricting and privacy invasive than Microsoft or Google!?