A subway rail system for the WWW....

Informationarchitects have published a large map on web trends for 2007 and beyond. The 200 most successful websites on the web, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective being mapped to the Tokyo Rail system (c.f. boing boing). Although I don't aggree with some of the facts, they've done a great job in visualizing the properties and the interrelatedness of the depicted websites. Actually, I don't really agree with their 'Web x.x'´-indicator for x.x > 2...
Anyhow, they have also provided a clickable online version as well as an A3/pdf and a MacOSX screensaver....

A map of the Social Web

Via media-ocean I found an interesting map of the 'currently known' Social Web (a.k.a. Web 2.0). Here you might take a look at the map in full size. Interesting thing about, the sizes of the single areas (communities) on the map correspond to the approximate number of members. Also the layout has its purpose. On top, you'll find the 'practicals' (Yahoo, Windows Live...), while at the bottom there stick the 'intellectuals' (wikipedia, sourceforge,...). The left is more concerned about 'real life' (I'm missing XING...), while the right is more 'web centered' (second life, antropomorphic dragons, etc...). You can even find good old usenet ...but only as a dashed outline (maybe it is about (or has already) to vanishid and only remembered in old myths like the legendary Atlantis..)
Nice thing to notice, there's also Qwghlm....I can't remember having seen it on any map before :)