Facebook: NY; Google: LA
The 2 most important, most trafficked sites on the web are the two largest, most important cites in the US - and they're as opposite as NY and LA are to one another. Facebook's social approach to the web is as foreign to Google as a good steak house is to LA.
MySpace: Detroit
Used to matter, not anymore - just trying to survive the exodus.
Yahoo: Boston
At one time this was the hub, not so much anymore.
Twitter: Miami
Lots of flash and celebrity power, keep this one a favored destination.
AOL: Chicago
This is where real people live: i.e. flyover country.
Wikipedia: San Francisco
Lots of smart folks working together communally to make the world a better place. Not to mention a few bad apples making the world a more difficult place.
TechCrunch: Austin
Small, but very influential. Where the movers and shakers all start.
CraigsList: Las Vegas
Sin city - what happens here stays here (hopefully).
Ebay: Phoenix
Old school, literally.
Did I miss any?
Comments (2)
Nice game, Mike, but I have some different takes on your analogies and I’ve added a few additional companies to the mix:
Google: New York
Simply the most interesting city in the country, far and away.
Twitter: LA
Full of a**holes (and meaningless words).
Facebook: Washington, DC
Imposing its will on the world against the vast majority's interests and telling them they should like it.
eBay: Orlando
Tons of pointless crap that no one needs.
AOL/"Aol": [virtually any interchangeable, identity-less suburb here]
No one cares.
"Ask.com Search Engine" (as per their current TITLE tag): St. Louis
“That still exists?”
Digg: San Francisco
Dorksville, USA.
Reddit: Seattle
Makes Digg/SF look cool by comparison.
Tumblr: Miami
Just plain sexy (despite having some annoying people in it).
Bit.ly: Boise, Idaho
A “company” in the same way that Boise is a “city” - i.e., only technically.
MySpace: Gary, Indiana
Not exactly somewhere you want your kids walking around at night.
Chatroulette: Juarez
Even less so.
Zynga: Houston
Being “successful” doesn’t make something good.
Blippy: Wilmington, Delaware
****ing people over financially because those people give them the power to do so.
FourSquare: Reno, Nevada
There are people who consider both “fun.”
43signals.com: Portland, Oregon
Annoying, arrogant, holier-than-thou, thin-skinned, not really that great.
TED.com: Long Island
Shut up already!
PlentyOfFish.com: Richmond, Virginia
Best place to catch herpes (source regarding Richmond: CDC by way of http://www.askkids.com/resource/Which-United-States-City-Has-the-Highest-STD-Rate.html (!)).
Microsoft: Omaha
A now pitiful place that owes its reputation almost entirely to one unfathomably wealthy man.
Yahoo!: Cleveland
Just ****ing depressing. (See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZzgAjjuqZM .)
Posted by Web 2.Hell | April 26, 2010 9:48 PM
Posted on April 26, 2010 21:48
heh..."FourSquare: Reno, Nevada
There are people who consider both 'fun.'”
Posted by mike | April 27, 2010 8:12 AM
Posted on April 27, 2010 08:12