Information Architects have released the 2008 edition of their Web Trend Map. The screenshot below is a 500×354 image and looks fuzzy because the original is 6470×4768! However, there is also a fantastic interactive version available at Zoomorama.
Information Architects have just released the 2008 version of their ‘map’ of the Web that looks and reads like a subway map. You can either take a look at the clickable online version or the downloadable PDF one. It may be useful to compare it to the 2007 version to see how their opinions of whether sites are moving ‘up’ or ‘down’ have changed or to see what new sites are on there and which ones dropped off.
Here is one of those things that has questionnable value, is definitely going to be out of date in 3 months, but yet is still mesmerizing; heck, I know I stared at it for a good 20 minutes, and visited some of the sites listed on it, just to see what they were about (ok, so they were mostly the Chinese and Japanese sites). Oh yeah, so what is this thing?? A company called Information Architects released this pictorial called the Web Trend Map (2007 version) that shows (in their words) “the 200 most successful websites on the Web, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective.” Oh man, it’s colorful and filled with detail. Here’s what makes it a bit more interesting than just the color-coding of popular websites: it’s the outlook that IA puts on these sites, whether they think they’re heading up, down, or about the same over the next year or so.
You can get your very own copy of this image, in sizes up to 1600×1024, PDF, a clickable web page version, and even a screensaver for Mac OSX.
via TechCrunch.
Another week – another recap; this week we looked at Cablevision’s new 100Mbps internet access plans for seriously fast downloads. Another technological breakthrough was General Electric’s 500Gb optical disc and China has developed a new competitor to Blu-Ray, although it will probably be primarily used within China.
Information Architects have released 2008’s Web Trend Map – pre-orders available now! We displayed the quite amazingly small wireless-N adapter.
The much awaited Tata Nano car surpassed a massive 200,000 pre-orders! And lastly, Vopium has released their free iPhone app.
