Information Architects Japan put out a new Web Trends map for 2007 last month which I found a lot more interesting than last years. I studied it for a good hour and had some snickers at the in jokes here and there. Basically, they mapped the 200 most popular websites on the Internet onto the Tokyo Subway Map based on their popularity or genre. If you know places in Tokyo you can have a good laugh at some of their choices although some left me thinking WTF? I imagine they put Apple/iTunes in that Tameike-Sanno/Akasaka-Mitsuke/Nagata-cho cluster because it intersects all those subways lines (used to represent different trends) rather than any similarities with the area. They put all those Bittorrent and P to P sites along the Asakusa line. The Asakusa line has quite a bit of traffic but it’s one of those train lines that people forget exist because it passes near some major stations, but not through them. Also, I don’t see MY blog on this map!!! But then again I wouldn’t map my site on a subway station anyway.
If you give them 2000$, they’ll put your blog on it :)
Oliver from iA is speaking at Tokyo 2.0 on the 7th too. You should go, he’s an awesome presenter.
http://www.tokyo2point0.net
i saw this on tokyomango a couple days of ago, very cool, right?
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