Points of Control
Nestoriamappers,
Beautiful maps of modern days are not supposed to be folded or rolled anymore. Even when they look like they came out of J. R. R. Tolkien book.This map produced to Web 2.0 Summit is not related to fiction at all, but the real facts about our industry and what is happening between the major players of internet, hardware and handset manufacture and the online payments and commerce services. There are currently so many companies at all levels looking for the many ways they can get competitive advantages for the next years. This idea came from early conversations between Tim O'Reilly and John Battele back in mid march. "The narrative is so rich, it struck us that it lends itself to a visualization".You can easily find two continents. The continent on the left it's all about locations, social media, and activity stream services. The one from the right is the continent of search, commerce services, and content. According to John, these two are not a Pangea for aesthetics purposes. All these masses interact to each other and you can see some white arrows indicating this interaction by clicking on the icons right above the map.This map was built using the Google Maps API, it has two leves of zoom and you can even see the beaches of some territories.
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by Anton Abreu
