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Jon, Great suggestion. A couple of years ago I mapped VCs. It pretty much gave the same picture as board of director interlock analysis of northern California startups, once you introduce VCs as organizations and filter out large public companies. I thought it was fascinating, however everyone I showed it to either (a) had no use for the info, or (b) thought it was obvious. That's a problem with information visualization: it often just makes the obvious apparent. The northern Californian VC community is a rather tight social net, and the only ones who care about it are in it. The trick is to find a net that is useful but dynamic enough so that new entrants would value a map. A great example is Valdis Krebs's social net of the Sept. 11 hijackers. http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,35253,FF.html Since September, there are many people interested in "breaking into" that net, and thus they value Krebs' map. Other thoughts on net visualization? Doug Bryan [log in to unmask] http://pavg.stanford.edu/people/bryan ----- Original Message ----- From: jon schneider <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 12:58 PM Subject: Re: ...mapping the Internet > Valdis > > Really interesting what you have combined here. > > There is an element that you may be overlooking and that is venture capital. > > If you look at the firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers > A leading US Silicon valley VC firm. > > > > http://www.kpcb.com/ > > > They have interests in AOL and Sun which are both hubs in your wheel. > > The rumour is that the Kleiner Perkins Network may be larger than the > Microsoft one. > > You might also want to look at Benchmark Capital which has interests in > ebay and AOL > > http://www.benchmark.com/ > > Finally I did not see Monster.com a large website for job seekers. > > http://www.monster.com > > Great work !!! Keep it going. !! > > > Cheers > > Jon G Schneider > 000|FIRST|TUESDAY|TORONTO > > > > > > On 1/30/02 3:01 PM, "Valdis" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > FYI... I have updated my Internet Industry Partnerships network... now at 222 > > nodes. > > > > http://www.orgnet.com/netindustry.html > > > > > > Valdis Krebs > > [log in to unmask] > > http://www.orgnet.com > > > > > > "Ronald E. Rice" wrote: > >> > >> See http://mappa.mundi.net/map/ > >> and go down to "map of the month" articles. > >> > >