Skype on the Web Trend Tokyo Train Map

I love these kinds of industry visualization projects. This is "the web industry" layered atop the Tokyo train system. 

Here's a close-up of the Skype station on the Money line, with Janus Friis standing by. Serving Harajuku. Sharing a line with eBay and PayPal this year.

Skype is looking more successful than eBay, less than PayPal, comparably stable.

There are no lines for Conversation, Talk, Communication, Collaboration, or Getting Things Done. Where would you put an independent Skype post-IPO? The Application Line with other platform plays like Google, Adobe, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Mozilla and Facebook? 2010 looks interesting.

Art by Information Architects.

tags: skype, ecosystem, datavisualization, mapping, maps, dataviz, industry, ebay

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