Check out these cool visualizations about the internet.

The first is called the Periodic Table of the Internet. This visualization is based on the periodic table that all of us have encountered in high school chemistry lessons. The element (and the groups) have been replaced by popular web constructs. The first column is occupied by search engines, the fourth by aggregators, the eight by operating systems etc. The atomic weights seem to have been replaced by their internet traffic rankings. Cool Stuff!

The second visualization is a representation of key web trends (websites, companies, technologies etc) and their inter relationships with each other. It looks like a city road map (or like the route map for suburban trains). It is not easy to decipher though, and some of the inter-relationships do not seem obvious. Still this is certainly worth a casual look. This visualization has been created by a strategic design agency from Japan.

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For some strange reason, my blog post seems to be crashing if I put any hypelinks; think the wordpress code has gone corrupt; so here are the original URLs without the hyperlinks-

www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/archive/2007-06-23–periodic-table-of-the-internet.html

www.informationarchitects.jp/ia-trendmap-2007v2