Friday, January 7, 2011

Online communities II

I posted about an older version of this "Online Communities" map from xkcd by Randall Munroe some time ago.  There is a new version and it's even more breath-taking in its scope than before.  Clicking on it will make it bigger and more legible, however it may be necessary to just go to go to the xkcd site and look at it there. Of course when there, hover over the image, and there will be an additional message in the "title-text" . This one says:
Best trivia I learned while working on this: 'Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the WORLD?' Then you wait for the listener to do a double-take.
I had to look this one up. Due to its dominance in China and Taiwan, "Happy Farm" is bigger than "Farmville". It's hosted on the massive instant messenger service in Asia, Tencent QQ which has capped new members to 2 million per day.

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