May 2, 2007
#256: Online Communities explain
[Hand-drawn fantasy style map with land and sea areas representing populations of online communities. Each area or item is labeled.]
Map of Online Communities and related points of interest
Geographic area represents estimated size of membership
[Land Area Labels:]
The Icy North (Yahoo, Windows Live),
AOL,
Chat Rooms
Reunion dot com,
Classmates dot com,
E-harmony,
Friendster,
Faceparty,
Chasm,
Qwghlm,
Yahoo Games,
Mountains of Web 1.0,
The Lonely Island,
MySpace,
Attractive MySpace Pages,
The Series of Tubes,
Myspace Bands,
WOW,
Lineage,
Second Life,
Third Life,
UO,
EQ,
FFXI,
2channel,
4chan,
LJ,
Xanga,
Orkut,
Cyworld,
Blurty,
OK Cupid,
Facebook,
Piczo,
The Compass-Rose-Shaped Island,
Practicals (Noob)
Focus on Real Life (IRL)
Focus on Web (.com)
Intellectuals (π)
Broadcaster,
The Bit Torrent,
Flickr,
Last.fm,
DeviantArt,
Isle of Slash,
Numa,
Digg,
Fark,
Reddit,
Something Awful,
Your Base,
Soviet Russia,
/. [Slashdot],
Spaaarta (YTMND),
StumbleUpon,
Del.icio.us,
The Blogipelago,
Sulawesi,
Xu Jinglei,
Post Secret,
Technocrati,
[Hard to read label: Probably JWB, TWB, or TMZ]
BoingBoing,
Huffington Post,
Gays of Web 2.0,
The Wikipedia project,
MIT,
Engadget,
Gizmodo,
Usenet,
MAKE Blog,
IRC Isles,
Sourceforge.
[Sea Area Labels:]
NOOB Sea,
Gulf of YouTube,
Bay of Angst,
Sea of Culture,
Ocean of Subculture,
P2P Shoals,
Straits of Web 2.0,
Here Be Anthropomorphic Dragons,
Bay of Trolls,
Viral Straits,
Sea of Memes,
The Wet Sea
Item Labels: Shipwreck of the SS Howard Dean, Cory Doctrow’s Balloon, Stallman’s airship, Google’s volcano fortress
(Not a complete survey. Sizes based on the best figures I could find but involved some guesswork. Do not use for navigation.)
Spring 2007