This is likely going to spread like wildfire, and it isn’t even finished yet: Information Architects has released the final beta for the fourth iteration of its awesome Web Trends Map series. This is a great visualization of current Internet trends, and how companies and individuals fit into it.
This was a self-funded startup that a college friend and I worked on for a year and a half. We launched 3 websites in that time. It ended up going nowhere, but there seems to be a lot of folks asking for stories of startups that just fade away, so I made this blog public anyway.