Every year a groovy design agency in Tokyo called Information Architects produce a Web Trend Map which attempts to a: Illustrate all of the important sites and people of the year and link them together with meaningful trends and b: show off how clever they are at fitting in so much information in to such a small space based on the Tokyo underground map. The above is far too small to read so the full size version is here.
Reading the map is very subjective but I think its interesting how much of the advertising line Google takes up ( about half of it), Microsoft accounts for much of the rest. We also see how the most important entities are at the centre, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are all there but also some that are more left field such as Firefox and ThePirateBay. The turquoise opinion line also has many of the better geek/tech culture blogs. I am not sure it tells us much new but it does provide a great structure into which we can place our ideas.
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