web trends as tokyo train lines
Whitebait likes this mapping of web trends on to the existing Tokyo train map. Abstract and geographical spaces thoroughly mashed up.
It is produced by Information Architects Japan (and W. discovered it via Q-Taro). As IAJ note,
People who know Tokyo will still find lots of little hints and sarcastic comments hidden in there.
Some interesting things to note
- Google has moved from Shibuya, a humming place for young people, to Shinjuku, a suspicious, messy, Yakuza-controlled, but still a pretty cool place to hang out (Golden Gaya).
- Youtube has conquered Shibuya.
- Microsoft has moved to Ikebukuro, if you know what I mean.
- Yahoo is in Ueno, a nice place but nothing going on there.
- Wikipedia now is in Shimbashi, the place for the square and hard-headed Salaryman, like the Wikipedia watchdogs.
- The Chinese line runs parallel to the “share line” which starts with the main pirates…
- Paper info designer Tufte is right below the Federated Media, right before joining with the interactive information design circle in a 90 degree angle.
- “You” are in the Emperor’s palace, in the center of the network.
There is also a bigger, clickable version of the map.
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