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WHO'S BEHIND THIS?
Webtrendmap.com is a product of collaboration between iA Inc. (@iA) and Craig Mod (@craigmod) in Tokyo.
We're thinkers and chatters (and inevitably also bullshitters) and would love to hear from you (feedback@webtrendmap.com) or meet up for coffee if you're ever around Tokyo.
While we've grown to become quite fond of our little beast, we hope that you too enjoy webtrendmap.com.
WTM = High-quality curation + aggregation
The short
Timely, trending links curated and filtered by an engaged and active community.
1. Stream of Information
The Stream of Information represents the entirety of articles and data being publishing online.
2. People Publishing Links
Individuals actively filter the portion of the stream of information passing in front of them. Acting as Micro-Curators, they selectively publish (to services like Twitter, Facebook, etc) the links they consider having highest value.
3. Links from Sources You Trust
Webtrendmap.com users create Micro-Aggregates of link publishers by choosing highly selective subsets to place on their Web Trend Maps. These maps become representative of subsets of online communities. The maps are also public facing (unlike most RSS readers) and provide a visual summary of links and trends within that community subset. Both the map creator and passive viewers gain insight into the community.
4. Trends from Sources We Trust
Webtrendmap.com collects, summarizes and publishes all of the trending links on individual maps onto a Macro-Aggregate represented as Top Trending Links.
The filtration process facilitated by Web Trend Map (All Information > Micro-Curation > Micro-Aggregation > Macro-Aggregation) means the data rising to the top is always high quality.
Micro-Curation
Micro-Aggregation
