Web Trend Map 2007
This is version 1 of the Web Trend Map. For the latest, Version 3, head over to here.
As a christmas and new year’s present to our clients and readers we have created three fun Internet overviews:
- The 50 loudest websites in 2006 and what made them successful
- Internet 2007 Predictions
- 2007 Web Trend Map in postcard format, DIN A4 or DIN A3 (PDF). 2007 Web Trend Map (.gif)
The iA Trend Map shows all the big players, the current Internet trends and how they’re connected, using the Tokyo Metro map. It’s totally unscientific and almost useless, but definitely fun to look at.
UPDATE: Tokyo Metro might not be perfectly happy abut this. Read more about the reactions on our web trend map.
UPDATE 2: Internet 2007 Trend Map Version 2
12.30.2006
00:59
Ah, it was great year! Trends are fantastic, really, web in 2006 is better place to be as compared to year 05, 04, 03…
Now! Oliver, keep up your great researches & good work. I liked your accents on social and ethics ideas, it is always wise to remember humanistic ideals and make them alive.
Happy New Year!
P.S. Hope to see your book within a short time.
12.30.2006
18:16
A minor correction to the postcard, Piratebay is spelled without an “s” there.
It’s a great map of the web, well done!
1.3.2007
04:51
I’m impressed by all the information you have distilled in your map and feel that the neighborhoods I frequent are fairly accurately represented. If the Main Sites loop circles the city, I network in the suburbs. But that’s where the newest things are emerging. My only question is: where do you map Netscape.com?
1.3.2007
08:04
Hey Tirekicker… congrats on getting Dugg! I Digg!
1.3.2007
11:54
That’s so interesting! Me being from NY, I couldn’t help but look at that map and think of NYC subways… I suppose it was designed to evoke that kind of feeling.
1.4.2007
01:11
Am I the only one that notices that that’s a JR Map of the Tokyo area? I apparently used to live at stumbleupon….odd
1.4.2007
12:02
Really cool map there - fascinating the way the status of the net is pretty much summed up in one graphically complex yet easy to follow map. Sure would like to be “on the map” one of these years
1.6.2007
09:24
shouldn’t “minimirosoft” be “mini miCrosoft” ?
1.6.2007
15:10
Shouldn’t mixi be in social networking :/? It’s not marketing at all…
1.6.2007
15:36
日本時代
Putting mixi under marketing is an ironic statement: Mixi has become more and more a marketing platform. There are people with over 100 profiles making 1000s of “friends” just to get contacts to market to. Some even make money with their mixi network. That’s why I put them there.
1.6.2007
15:59
[…]Reader Jan sent along this neat trend chart that riffs on the Tokyo subway. Created by Japan-based design agency Information Architects, it’s a mash-up of the most used websites from last year and what to expect from next.[…]
1.6.2007
16:02
[…] A pair of trend maps for 2007, both based on subway maps. […]
1.8.2007
11:29
You guys should totally make a t-shirt of this!
1.9.2007
00:39
地下鉄の路線図かと思ったら、なんと、Webトレンドマップ2007だった。東京西麻布のInformation Architects Ltdによるデザイン。
1.11.2007
03:42
Did we forget about a trend that is already happening? We will hardly differentiate a blog a news article and a web page. All seem to melt into a consistent form and content will be shared across the board, there will be no boundary between content providers and consumers.
XML/XSL will be the underlying format and standards like RSS will replace the HTML Doctype.
1.11.2007
11:05
Search Guru,
True, Search Guru, true. I am trying to get my head around the ideal frameset and interface for such a boundary free input/output XML/RSS info-network right now.
1.11.2007
11:32
Oliver,
Still waiting on your reaction to the iPhone. Some are saying revolution, and others are saying “But it’s all the same features.”
I think it’s time to tell people the interface (goodbye plastic buttons, hello multi-touch) is the brand again. It has never been more true than now.
1.11.2007
11:52
Rich,
Hey, it’s not that easy. It’s a really tough one. Actually two. One about the GUI skin and one about the interface and maybe even a third one about the question what the iPhone really is.
I wrote until late last night and I got so confused I needed a good old Onoldswiler Kirsch (strong Swiss Schnaps) and fell asleep.
This morning I went through a couple of lame articles fromn the first whiners (top 10 things I hate about the iPhone and other crap). The most interesting short comment so far comes from Roughtype:
“In Jobs’s world, users are users, creators are creators, and never the twain shall meet. Which is, of course, why the iPhone, like the iPod, is such an exquisite device. Steve Jobs is not interested in amateur productions.”
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/01/steves_devices.php
Which actually made me think about a 4th article. Writing this I noticed, that the actual problem is that I still have not found the right angle. Best ideas always come over lunch when talking to my colleagues. Sorry to keep you waiting…
1.18.2007
06:59
You did it again. F… fresh!
1.19.2007
00:39
i keep it…
2.5.2007
19:32
I saw the trend map. It’s a great job, Oliver!! I wonder where livedoor and Horiemon are… I looked for them around Sugamo and Fuchu, but I don’t see them there.
2.16.2007
23:27
> It’s totally unscientific
Well, not exactly. I’m very interested in how you proceeded to label the map so as to associate stations to websites and lines to trends : maybe you started by placing websites which represented a lot of trends? The problem itself, to know whether we can fit two related lists (one of websites, and one of trends for example) into a subway map to illustrate relationships between both lists is “GI-complete”, that is as hard as the graph isomorphism problem, whose complexity (NP-complete or polynomial) is still an open problem.
3.2.2007
12:57
Thought you guys might like this - don’t take it too seriously!
http://nowandnext.com/PDF/TimeLineweb_ver2.pdf
Regards,
Richard
7.24.2007
22:52
Do you still sell printed version of Web Trend Map? If so, than how much could it cost?
7.31.2007
16:24
holiday man,
The new version that we sell prints of is here:
http://www.informationarchitects.jp/ia-trendmap-2007v2
8.22.2007
18:53
This is a great map. I think is very dificult to meke this job!!