Information Architects 2007 Web Trend Map
Duncan Riley
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Information Architects have released their Web Trend Map for 2007, a subway map of the 200 most successful websites on the web, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective. In theory it demonstrates the relationship between various sites and ideas, with a strong focus on Web 2.0.
I’ve always found these sorts of things clever, in a geeky sort of way, but it’s not recommended that you try reading this with a hangover or whilst on certain prescription medications. Click the image for a larger version or click here for the pdf version.
Highly cute, like the Periodic Table of the Internet. Always interesting to have a new way to visualize and conceptualize the web.
Tokyo Metro MAP
http://www.tokyometro.jp/rosen.....en_eng.pdf
I love any and all posters like this. If I didn’t care about ever seeing a girl again, I’d paper my home in them.
It does however, make me feel like I got zero done today. I mean how long must that have taken?
Thank you though, that is really cool.
It would be intresting from a VC/investor point of view, if the chart also showed how much capital each company raised.
None the less, impressive.
Very cool, and obviously not to be taken too seriously, but wtf is all that ‘Web X.X’ stuff? Google is Web 1.5? Facebook is Web 2.5? What on earth does that mean?!
Apparently MySpace > Facebook. I didn’t realize that.
Erm… Facebook > MySpace
I hate to say this, but I kind of have a hard time understanding why anybody would spend so much time creating something so useless. It’d be much more useful to see what sites fall into which niche, in a way you can read it, as it would be advantageous to the enormous amount of companies struggling to understand what lies where on the web and how things fit in.
Sorry!
This is clever but way too hard to follow. Maps and charts are supposed to better illustrate information than a plain text table would, otherwise they’re just extra ink. I appreciate the hard work that went into this, but before designing such things people should ask themselves, “What would Tufte do?” and “Does this create more clarity or more confusion?”
love this kind of stuff
also, the skinny on some Tokyo neighborhood jokes re: Goog, Yahoo, Microsoft. very inside baseball, for Tokions.
- dave mcclure
http://500hats.typepad.com/
This map is really impressive. Amazing hard work. I hope they get it updated.
I like how they made it look exactly like the Tokyo subway map.
http://www.tokyoessentials.com.....ay-map.jpg
hey, didn’t the folks at outsell.com also put out a map of “information neighborhoods” which is kinda one level above this map? it was also huge if i recall, but more abstract and covered topics and density, very interesting if you can unearth it or ping them as a fup to this, provided it’s of any interest…
Very nice, a take-off of Simon Patterson’s ‘Great Bear’? - a version of the London Underground map. There are all sorts of these things around now:
http://web.archive.org/web/200.....rson3.html
It’s nice.
BTW, why did this map creator use tokyo metro map?
I think NewYork and London metero(tube?) have enough complexity for expressing this trend.
People who think this should be made less complex should also appreciate how amazingly complicated the web really is…
perhaps they used the Tokyo maps because that is where they live? (check the domain)
To Rb:
True.
I might think country domain name is just only symbol and exactly describe that location.
That site is really located in Japan.
Thanks.
This is a map of “winner take all” markets that dominate the Internet Ok, so it’s 200 deep, but my site isn’t on it. Is yours?
How appropriate…the fundamental design originally came from Richard Saul Wurman, who also inspired most of our early ventures into this discipline with his book: Information Architecture.
other map based on the websites world classification carried out by Alexa and
ComScore. The websites traffic is correlated with the surface of the countries.
http://explomap.free.fr/world_web_map.html