Amanda Peyton, the creator of geo-blogging site MessageParty, has designed a map of internet services based on Manhattan and its neighborhoods: The reasoning behind each placement is as follows: Twitter + Wall Street: Frenetic, Jumbled, Terse, but incredibly powerful Foursquare + East Village: The roots of the service were in the EV and the best foursquare tips are still found here; bar-hopping, hypersocial, where-you-at mentality Tumblr + West Village and Meatpacking: Coolness to a fault Blog + Gramercy: I currently live in this neighborhood, so it was most fitting to place it there Email + Chelsea and Times Square: Large, unmanageable, swelling, but ultimately the pulse of everything Bnter + West Chelsea + Hell’s Kitchen: West Chelsea is the biggest up-and-comer...
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