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Looks a lot like the globe on Stripe's homepage: https://stripe.com https://stripe.com They even had a post about it, too: https://stripe.com/blog/globe https:

by gk1 6y ago

Looks a lot like the globe on Stripe's homepage: https://stripe.com https://stripe.com They even had a post about it, too: https://stripe.com/blog/globe https://stripe.com/blog/globe

kowlo 6y ago
Very similar - and posted earlier! The GitHub one has some nicer effects.
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elwell 6y ago
Dating further back, it might be even closer to this old "Chrome experiment" from about 10 years ago: https://github.com/dataarts/webgl-globe https://github.com/dataarts/webgl-globe
- ChuckMcM 6y ago
  Pretty much. Basically the "show internet actions via the globe" has a pretty rich history. There was even an animated and projected globe in the lobby of the IBM research facility in San Jose. Still, given that the "form" is well established, it is always interesting to me at least to see how they chose to represent the data. When Blekko was running Bryn Dole had done a visualization based on this theme were query requests were highlighted as streams from their point of origin (more queries, taller stream as I recall).
dmix 6y ago
Good design ideas are always 'stolen'. As long as it's not exactly the same clone then it's fine. Github's is different enough and looks cool so I don't mind the similarity. And as others have commented there is plenty of other examples in the past of global activity maps.
- benatkin 6y ago
  This seems to be a blatant ripoff* with no attribution, and since the opening line is the arrogant "GitHub is where the world builds software", I'm not cutting them any slack. I'm also not forgetting Microsoft's checkered history with open source, or their current deals with government agencies like ICE and the DoD. * I'm not saying they didn't build it themselves. For companies like Microsoft/GitHub, the design is the hard part and paying engineers is easy.
  - nirushiv 6y ago
    You’re grasping at a lot of straws here. Showing your business on a globe is pretty old idea. Stripe “ripped off” someone too. Shopify was doing this for cyber monday many years ago. I also don’t think the ICE and DoD deals are relevant here at all (or to any of Microsofts’s other products)
    - benatkin 6y ago
      That's why I said it seems to be a blatant ripoff. I don't know the whole story but I see a similar blog post (but with a lot of corporate self-agrandizment) about a similar design and disagree with the take that I replied to.
  - nl 6y ago
    The idea of that visualisation has been around since at least 1983. Combine these two Wargames movie posters: Globe: https://www.traileraddict.com/wargames/poster/1 https://www.traileraddict.com/wargames/poster/1 Tracking: https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/216876538281839025/ https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/216876538281839025/ But sure.. it's all a MS conspiracy to steal credit.
kevincox 6y ago
I remember that Shopify used to have this as well for placed orders.
mrmonkeyman 6y ago
Stripe did it better. Github's sphere has just a handful things, it looks empty. Silent globe. Not a good message. Massive, astronomical waste of time.
amelius 6y ago
Perhaps it's just me but both seem to convey absolutely zero useful information ...
- bingojess 6y ago
  I don't think they are intended to
ricardobeat 6y ago
I've seen variations of these on basically every hackathon ever.
calcsam 6y ago
Nat joked about this when it launched: "The battle for webgl globe supremacy will bring peace in our time" -- https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1336331076503916545 https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1336331076503916545 FWIW I'm currently running a Twitter poll to see whose globe people like better. 8 hours in the votes are running 60% Github, 40% Stripe: https://twitter.com/calcsam/status/1344396912896712706 https://twitter.com/calcsam/status/1344396912896712706
csbartus 6y ago
Thanks! I knew I saw this globe somewhere else before. What a strange feeling ... a very strong deja vu, but mystery solved :)

by gk1 6y ago

Looks a lot like the globe on Stripe's homepage: https://stripe.com https://stripe.com They even had a post about it, too: https://stripe.com/blog/globe https://stripe.com/blog/globe

kowlo 6y ago

Very similar - and posted earlier! The GitHub one has some nicer effects.

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elwell 6y ago

Dating further back, it might be even closer to this old "Chrome experiment" from about 10 years ago: https://github.com/dataarts/webgl-globe https://github.com/dataarts/webgl-globe

ChuckMcM 6y ago
Pretty much. Basically the "show internet actions via the globe" has a pretty rich history. There was even an animated and projected globe in the lobby of the IBM research facility in San Jose. Still, given that the "form" is well established, it is always interesting to me at least to see how they chose to represent the data. When Blekko was running Bryn Dole had done a visualization based on this theme were query requests were highlighted as streams from their point of origin (more queries, taller stream as I recall).

dmix 6y ago

Good design ideas are always 'stolen'. As long as it's not exactly the same clone then it's fine. Github's is different enough and looks cool so I don't mind the similarity. And as others have commented there is plenty of other examples in the past of global activity maps.

benatkin 6y ago
This seems to be a blatant ripoff* with no attribution, and since the opening line is the arrogant "GitHub is where the world builds software", I'm not cutting them any slack. I'm also not forgetting Microsoft's checkered history with open source, or their current deals with government agencies like ICE and the DoD. * I'm not saying they didn't build it themselves. For companies like Microsoft/GitHub, the design is the hard part and paying engineers is easy.
- nirushiv 6y ago
  You’re grasping at a lot of straws here. Showing your business on a globe is pretty old idea. Stripe “ripped off” someone too. Shopify was doing this for cyber monday many years ago. I also don’t think the ICE and DoD deals are relevant here at all (or to any of Microsofts’s other products)
  - benatkin 6y ago
    That's why I said it seems to be a blatant ripoff. I don't know the whole story but I see a similar blog post (but with a lot of corporate self-agrandizment) about a similar design and disagree with the take that I replied to.
- nl 6y ago
  The idea of that visualisation has been around since at least 1983. Combine these two Wargames movie posters: Globe: https://www.traileraddict.com/wargames/poster/1 https://www.traileraddict.com/wargames/poster/1 Tracking: https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/216876538281839025/ https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/216876538281839025/ But sure.. it's all a MS conspiracy to steal credit.

kevincox 6y ago

I remember that Shopify used to have this as well for placed orders.

mrmonkeyman 6y ago

Stripe did it better. Github's sphere has just a handful things, it looks empty. Silent globe. Not a good message. Massive, astronomical waste of time.

amelius 6y ago

Perhaps it's just me but both seem to convey absolutely zero useful information ...

bingojess 6y ago
I don't think they are intended to

ricardobeat 6y ago

I've seen variations of these on basically every hackathon ever.

calcsam 6y ago

Nat joked about this when it launched: "The battle for webgl globe supremacy will bring peace in our time" -- https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1336331076503916545 https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1336331076503916545 FWIW I'm currently running a Twitter poll to see whose globe people like better. 8 hours in the votes are running 60% Github, 40% Stripe: https://twitter.com/calcsam/status/1344396912896712706 https://twitter.com/calcsam/status/1344396912896712706

csbartus 6y ago

Thanks! I knew I saw this globe somewhere else before. What a strange feeling ... a very strong deja vu, but mystery solved :)