This is likely going to spread like wildfire, and it isn’t even finished yet: Information Architects has released the final beta for the fourth iteration of its awesome Web Trends Map series. This is a great visualization of current Internet trends, and how companies and individuals fit into it.
The picture that’s embedded above doesn’t do it justice in any way, so be sure to check out the full-sized image hosted on Flickr. Update: better yet, head over to Zoomorama.
The Web Trend Map is a yearly publication by iA Inc. It maps the 333 most influential Web domains and the 111 most influential internet people onto the Tokyo Metro map. Domains are carefully selected by the iA research team through dialogue with map enthusiasts. Each domain is evaluated based on traffic, revenue, age and the company that owns it. The iA design team assigns these selected domains to individual stations on the Tokyo Metro map in ways that complement the characters of each.
Oh, and in case you like it and you want to buy a printed version, they’re only making and selling 1,000 of them, so be quick.
wooo Nice one !!
is my domain on it?
Avram ?!
Congratulation!
Great work!
Cool desktop background.
I was sort of thinking the same thing!
Holy smokes. TechCrunch! Gotta go get the champagne out of the fridge and pray that our poor little server can handle the load… : )
Awesome! Makes for a great poster.
And they’ve spelt SlideShare with the correct camel case too!
TC Arrington is at 28!
Good to see iLoveTypography is listed on the map aswel! Great job! Looking forward to the final version.
Waou ! Amazing. Great position for TechCrunch. Congratulations.
Easier to explore in a Zoomable format:
http://www.zoomorama.com/2477f0e8b447bb6570493cdac464c41f
Thanks for zoomable image! Much better.
The lack of open source technology on this map, especially Joomla, really makes it’s accuracy questionable.
Congratulation!
Awesome!
Nice. Here’s somes ideas :
- make this a flash thing and fetch navigation data from users to put them on the map and show what’s popular, in real time.
- Use your connections and geographical display to suggest users where to go next.
Really fantastic work from IA again. Great to have the influencers in too.
Perfect, I’m checking who’s the most influential domains out there now.. thanks for the links TC.
iA team keeps amazing.
The good thing about this (huge) visualization is that you really want it. At least I do so I reserved one.
It would be terrific to bring this to another (2.0?) level and make it interactive or better said, make it live updated to real-world data, allowing for introduction of new domains. Oh, I just noticed jonas suggested a similar improvement. Anyway, +1!
Cheers!
Shonzilla
What’s the point of this crap?
Sample test
What’s amazing is tokyo’s metro system.
wow
amazing, how long did they make this map?
If you like visualization check out Chris Harrison’s blog. He is a Ph.D. students from Carnegie Mellon. Really engaging.
You can also check Chris’s work on Zoomorama (search for “Harrison”)
What’s is Tokio’s metro system?
Impressive. I have no words!
4 chan should be half that page
Form follows function and begets art.
Good Job !
That is an amazing work! The zooming feature in zoomorama works great too.
Thank you for this piece of great information.
This is amazing work and definitely a big something to add to our lists of goals: “Get on the Web Trend Map.”
A big hand to the team who put this together!
I also love this map; creative data visualization is key to understanding, especially on the web, which already caters to “visual” people.
Incidentally, I built trendero.com with that in mind: create a better way of visualizing lifestyle news by sorting based on geography.
It’s not a metaphorical visualization, like the Web Trends Map, but it does add a very valuable layer that allows you to quickly assess where creative ideas come from and are going.
Always looking forward to seeing the next version of iA’s trend maps.
AOL should be added…
Super visualization! When will the final Web Trend Map be released into the public?