Comments on: Web 2 Map: The Data Layer – Visualizing the Big Players in the Internet Economy

By: JP Lee

JP Lee — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:58:00 +0000

The map is not epic – it suffers from the same problems that 2.5D bar charts do – you cannot accurately compare values. Clustering them without a good baseline compounds the difficulties that users will have. Yeah, it looks cool, but does a poor job of conveying the message. Just use a bar chart. thanks, JP

By: Jordan Lampe

Jordan Lampe — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:42:00 +0000

The map is epic. Great work!

By: Jordan Lampe

Jordan Lampe — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:42:00 +0000

The map is epic. Great work!

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:37:50 +0000

Where are Skype and other realtime social media in this? Is it a casual ommission or did you have some thoughts on why it wasn’t interesting in this context?

Let me point you to my response to last year’s map on Skype Journal: http://www.slideshare.net/evanwolf/skypelandia-the-lost-continent-of-realtime-communications and http://skypejournal.com/blog/2010/11/15/dear-john-and-tim-i-found-skypelandia/. I’ll be updating it this weekend.

By: Mahesh CR

Mahesh CR — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:05:31 +0000

John - Any reason why the content providers to professional markets(finance, legal etc.) are not included in this study? Or perhaps I missed them in the infographic?

May be these professional content providers might not fit within the purview of web 2.0 points of control , but I feel these players are ripe for disruption and some of them are observing how to gain benefits of the open data model without disrupting their business models. StockTwits is one example of financial info provider using web 2.0 style info sharing, which is quite contrary to the norm in that industry.

Thoughts?

By: Kingsley

Kingsley — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:53:11 +0000

Is there a Google Spreadsheet or similar that enables one access the data in the table you’ve embedded in this post?

By: aaron wall

aaron wall — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:14:10 +0000

How does Apple score higher than Google in terms of location?

- Google localizes search results for some generic search queries

- 20% of searches are local in nature (and that % will go up over time as more searches are from mobile devices)

- Google is the default search provider on iPhone & Android

By: Tim F

Tim F — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:34:14 +0000

I like the small cities approach for measuring things. For using so many different factors and variables I think you are off to a good start.

Jeffrey's column of Platform might be a good one. The sites that are constantly developing new software, apps, or features should get a bit of a bump in score.

By: Jeffrey Hatton

Jeffrey Hatton — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:41:41 +0000

I’d like a column for “Platform” an indicator about “People are building stuff here.” It would be quite high for amazon (on their cloud), google (duh), facebook (applications, integration), Apple (iOS) but low for almost everyone else.

By: chao

chao — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:14:13 +0000

In this context, it seems worthwhile to have a scale of how exposable the organization's data is, or alternatively how latent or dark their data is (dark as in dark fiber).

Facebook would be seem to have the most explicit, exposable data, while carriers and payment processors have huge, significant barriers to mining the data in a strategic way.