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Web Trend Map 4

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Web Trend Map 4 by iA Inc..
Hires file and A0 poster available at http://informationarchitects.jp/wtm4/.

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MiSc.at says:

Hooray! Can't wait to print it at Knallgrau office!
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twoeyes  Pro User  says:

Superb stuff - well done.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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genue.luben  Pro User  says:

nice!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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vutheara says:

Very nice map !
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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MarcTV says:

Very nice! But why is 'XBOX Live' part of the WTM4 but not Sonys 'PSN'? I prefer XBOX Live but I am still curious
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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aruban  Pro User  says:

Very nice, well done, again !
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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juho-v says:

Hyvä! Excellent! I also like the new background color.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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Bram Pitoyo  Pro User  says:

I love it!

Several corrections:
- Doppler should be Dopplr (if you’re referring to the web service)
- IMBD should be IMDb (b is written in lowercase)
- Deposite Files should be Deposit Files
- There are two entries for FontShop, is this intended?
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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juho-v says:

"Aftonbladed" should be "Aftonbladet"
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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RomanZolotarev says:

IMBD -> IMDb
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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Peter van der Steege  Pro User  says:

Did you make this? How very nice done and what a great design You made my day . Great work..
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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seeal says:

nice work¡
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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Xuoan  Pro User  says:

huge! well done. That's the first subway I'm ok to take on a daily basis...
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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Hannah Donovan  Pro User  says:

Awesome work! I always look forward to these coming out :)

Bit of a spelling error on Last.fm, should be "Felix Miller" also, there's 3 founders at that company -- you're missing Richard Jones, who invented/created scrobbling.
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iA Inc.  Pro User  says:

Thanks, everyone. Keep the feedback coming. Thankful for every little detail you see. After four months of looking at it, we just don't see the mistakes anymore.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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Silent Z  Pro User  says:

All the corrections I saw are already mentioned by previous commenters. Is this going to be able to purchase in poster form? I'm starting a new job soon and this would be great for a wall.
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iA Inc.  Pro User  says:

@Silent Z: Yeah, it'll be available in A0 (same size as version 3). So, you need a big wall...
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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C.Saetre  Pro User  says:

Excellent tube map - bravo.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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North East Kiwi  Pro User  says:

Brilliant!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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Matias Kee says:

a-m-a-z-i-n-g-!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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gabyu  Pro User  says:

wow amazing !
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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saicode  Pro User  says:

neat.
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avlxyz  Pro User  says:

where's the classic "here be dragons"? :)
great job though!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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1031s  Pro User  says:

wow interesting !
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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nuetaipoo  Pro User  says:

i congratulate you on your web trend map success. the world needs more clean informational design like this. Although it's getting bit more eye candy than your earlier versions. dunno if that's good or bad, but Tufte might not approve it ;)

if you're refering to the 2ch admin, "Hiroyuki Nishino", it should be "Hiroyuki Nishimura". But i dunno why you're putting foreign sites here cause this map is way too western culture centric for them... which is kinda ironic with the whole japanese map thing and all... just my 2cents worth.
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me2flickr [deleted] says:

Web Trend Map 4 Final Beta — via boowon by 서울비

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me2flickr [deleted] says:

Web Trend Map 4 Final Beta 日本 東京都 전철 노선도를 이용해서 만든 Web Trend Map입니다. Google은 신주쿠(新宿), Firefox는 도쿄역(東京驛). Web Trend를 도쿄 전철노선도로 만들어서 재미있군요. by StudioEgo

Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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iA Inc.  Pro User  says:

UPDATE: Thanks for the input. We just uploaded an updated version, incorporating 99% of your feedback. Thanks again. Please keep on telling us how to improve.

BTW: This is getting out of control: So far we made it on the top page of Reddit, Digg, and Techcrunch.
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me2flickr [deleted] says:

Web Trend Map 4 Final Beta 여기에는 링크가 걸릴려나? by StudioEgo

Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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James Kirkup  Pro User  says:

Wow Wow Wow - cannot wait for this
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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JackpotCity says:

This is looking fantastic so far. I really look forward to the final.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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eduo  Pro User  says:

Fantastic. You should consider a black type on white background version for printing.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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atariboy says:

This is awesome! Beautiful.

Not sure if it was deliberate but you have '.me'. The service was called .Mac but is now called MobileMe.

Seems more accurate to call it 'MobileMe'
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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Linux29 says:

fantastic... to print asap ;)
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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Cedric Chee says:

very creatively done. congrats! this have really made my day. gambateh kudasai!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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gabyu  Pro User  says:

You've been Fubized : www.fubiz.net/2009/04/06/web-trends-4/
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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redhooded  Pro User  says:

oh the detail. so great!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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rosefirerising  Pro User  says:

OMG, wow.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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Ottoman42  Pro User  says:

Very cool indeed but you do you determine most influential?
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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lukhnos  Pro User  says:

Why does Lawrence Lessig appear twice in this map? Once in Opinion (top), another in Sharing (near Shinbashi station).
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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Silent K says:

incredible!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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bd34r says:

Where's Eventful? More than 9 million users and it's not on the map as far as I can tell.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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david.orban  Pro User  says:

There two Larry Lessig's. I don't know if it is intentional...
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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llbbl  Pro User  says:

the pink line is the best. chooochoo
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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sights set says:

The Hype Machine would be the proper way to refer to hypem.com (filter line, next to last.fm) if not yet at printer.

Thanks for featuring us!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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jolly_sonali  Pro User  says:

Very Cool! Cant wait to see the next map with government transparency and opensource!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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fejervary_gergo  Pro User  says:

Very cool! deviantArt is on twice. Once on the creative line, and once on publishing.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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beefman  Pro User  says:

s/b PDF so we can search the text
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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Siuslaw Media  Pro User  says:

Sweet.
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hans.ning says:

There are also two DevianART. Well, one DeviantART and one deviantART.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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iA Inc.  Pro User  says:

============================================= ==========
UPDATE2: Lots of feedback from all sorts of places. I hope we didn't miss too many inputs this time. Keep on commenting, please. Three days to go.
============================================ ===========

Ps: In the mean time it's been also featured by Daringfireball, Zeldman, Techmeme, Boingboing, Swissmiss, Fubiz, Globo, TechCrunch Japan, TechCrunch France, Metafilter, NotCot, The Next Web, Electricpig, FastCompany and many others. Server holds bravely thanks to flickr (almost 200,000 x 2.6MB). 700 poster reservations are in, 671, to be precise.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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designbyfront  Pro User  says:

We're loving this year's map! The best yet!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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agentbillo  Pro User  says:

The travel-related web seems distinctly missing, but my perspective is skewed. Kayak? TripAdvisor? Expedia/Orbitz/Travelocity?
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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8bitsboy  Pro User  says:

Correction:
I think Gmail is way too big here.
. It's 3 time smaller than Yahoo! mail in terms of number of users globally...
. It doesn't make a lot of revenues.
. The growth has flatten a lot in 08.
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«David Chambers» says:

What's the consensus: «GMail» or «Gmail»? My understanding is that the latter is correct.

David Chambers
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visual think map says:

it is here, just noticed it here from Benjamin Wiederkehr and Christian Siegrist: www.datavisualization.ch/

looks really good. your previous versions were very good, and you have managed to improve upon them.

loved the isometric, but you have given it futhter depth like the tubes and it has the level of popularaity with the height dimension explored.

i like how you have brought in the people symbols/isotypes walking in this new geograpic terrain of the web similiar to what they did on this

visualthinkmap.ning.com/photo/photo/show?id=2 168552:Photo...

i think it is a great improvement, not that it needed it. wish i knew how to say 'brilliant, thanks' in japanese.
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aftershow  Pro User  says:

omfg!!!!!! great job !!!!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

【ツ】Jerry H. [deleted] says:

amazing
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madhumitamundrao says:

Excellent work! Very creative. I love the clarity, annotations, different font sizes, colours......and everything...Great work
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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Fresh Muse™ says:

cool and complete

thx
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gusoto says:

Awesome, thanks!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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bierkofh says:

muy bueno
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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wendygee  Pro User  says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called KQED Photo Gallery Pool, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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d_kazu007 says:

すばらしい!!!
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trumpetflickr  Pro User  says:

Information overload never looked so pretty and tidy!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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slackware  Pro User  says:

great work
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Eugenio Pini says:

wow! great infographic work!
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Peter Bowers  Pro User  says:

remarkable, great work
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mariajoseoo  Pro User  says:

está buenísimo!
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Aen Tan  Pro User  says:

Your site's database is dead by the Digg effect I think.

Anyway, I think for those who want to try printing this themselves on laser/inkjet. The massive black background will be expensive. I suggest another version, one with white background.

Great work!
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mhking says:

Impressive....
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Virginie Smallwood  Pro User  says:

Amazing! Every year it gets better & better thank you!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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r9luisao says:

amazing!!!
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dcmao says:

不错
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Den-Sen says:

like it - very informative!

one thing: the bubbles that hold the names are not pointing a little left/right to the heads in every case.
example: www.flickr.com/photos/den-sen/3426333242/
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Peter J. Bury  Pro User  says:

Amazing and informative!
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MarceCoro says:

Muy bueno y muy completo.
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anny jung  Pro User  says:

wow this is awesome!
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dustmotes says:

It's really fascinating, especially for people who live in Tokyo.
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fermata.daily  Pro User  says:

I want a huge poster of this on my livingroom wall!
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fermata.daily  Pro User  says:

PS - You got linked to on Gawker: gawker.com/5207805/web-ego-map
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dukannstmichkreutzweise says:

Nice, looks great. But 4chan seems to be missing. What would the Internet be without lolcats? ;)
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PARIS YOUNG says:

nice combination
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ldexterldesign  Pro User  says:

AMAZING. Getting it printed for sure to hang on my wall. Disappointed not to see www.pornorama.com/ on there :P
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Andrea Vascellari  Pro User  says:

Great!
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zell0ss  Pro User  says:

What a neat concept!!!
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

me2flickr [deleted] says:

Web Trend Map 4 - Final Beta by 달달한끔

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typehigh.nl  Pro User  says:

Completely amazing.
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PhilWolff  Pro User  says:

Typo: Should be RapidShare (not RapidSthare)
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

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q*pef*p  Pro User  says:

Great. Once again.
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bd34r says:

Why isn't Eventful listed?
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Jim Eagle  Pro User  says:

Must have taken ages to make.
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Daniel Poeira says:

Beautiful!
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«David Chambers» says:

«facebook» should be «Facebook». Although the logo has a lowercase f, the title of the home page is «Welcome to Facebook! | Facebook». As with Skype, the logo may eschew uppercase characters for stylistic reasons. For this reason, logos should be ignored when determining correct capitalization.

David Chambers
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Pixel Fantasy  Pro User  says:

wow that's beautiful
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tettinx  Pro User  says:

One for the billboard on the fridge at the Kunstmaan office! Thanks!
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me2flickr [deleted] says:

웹 서핑중 우연히 발견한 2009년도 웹 트랜드를 동경 지하철 노선도로 표현한 재미있는 맵 발견 매년 1회씩 IA Inc.가 발행한단다. 가장 영향력 있는 웹 서비스 도메인 333개와 사람 111명을 표시한 것이란다.. by 해리

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buddyhm says:

Just curious : what is the software used for this ? Made 'by hand' with Illustrator ?
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sibilev says:

thnx so much. my friends are fed up with me n this awesome map. keep annoying them as to learn it by heart)
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invormation says:

No Livejournal? I'm surprised...
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