This week’s Carnival of Entrepreneurship is up at Small Business Trends and it happens to include the Innovation Map .

Wow, I bet heads are rolling somewhere in Seattle today. Zillow.com launched today (more here), complete with $32 million and 75 employees, and what do we get for that? A nice big outage message. I’ll say it again, wow! $32 million and you can’t run a load test?

Zillow promises to be able value your home for you, which is an interesting idea. I’m in the middle of buying and selling a house so I was really excited to try it out. I managed to get in to value my house and Zillow valued it about 10% under what we just sold it for. But, considering the market these days, I don’t think that’s too terrible. With the lack of comps for our neighborhood, I doubt an agent would have done much better (we sold by owner). I didn’t get a chance to value the house I’m buying, but hopefully will soon, if they can come back online.

This was fun to find. The commandN web video show featured the Web 2.0 Innovation map in this week’s episode. Thanks commandN!

Some more maps that have been brought to my attention over the last week:

• SF Bay Area Tech Companies
• European Web 2.0 map
• A Web 2.0 meme map

In the O’Reilly Post, PJ from Wayfaring makes a comment about creating maps like ours there. For some reason, none of my comments went through (I got in the blog itself, but I can’t get a comment through?). So, responding here, I hadn’t really considered using another site, as I wanted to funnel buzz through Fourio and our projects. Plus with so many points, using Wayfaring would have been very painful (I didn’t see any bulk create functionality, but maybe I missed it?). But as you can see, someone else did.

Check this photo out on Flickr. Along with our map, this is quite the week for Web 2.0 compilations.

(via Russell Beattie)

If there are any LinkedIn users out there. Feel free to connect with me at ryan@fourio.com.

I’m currently drowning in submissions. Perhaps email wasn’t the best mechanism for that, eh? Ahh well, live and learn. A victim of our own success. I hope to catch up by the weekend. There are many international ones, so that should start to satisfy some complaints about the map being too US centric.

For anybody reading this that has or is going to submit…. please include an address or a lat/long (just a url, or a url and a city doesn’t cut it). This is a location based map after all and at this point, with the large number of submissions to go through, I’m not going to be to very willing to track down your location. I beg you to make it easy for me.

A very successful day in blogosphere for the map.

Made the Digg front page and del.icio.us/popular page for the first time! (we got close to the del.icio.us/popular page for NetworthIQ).

But even more exciting was that Tim O’Reilly (yes the one who publishes all those books on your bookshelf at work), who helped define the Web 2.0 movement, posted:

“It is indeed interesting. A lot of apps I haven’t followed (and missing a lot that I have) so I can’t speak to how thoroughly it covers Web 2.0 as I think of it. (There are a lot of different aspects to Web 2.0, so this is going to be hard to do.) But it’s really interesting to see how many of the apps Ryan has selected are not in Silicon Valley.”

Looks like the map is going over well. Here’s what’s happened so far.

Dion Hinchcliffe says:

“Visually shows where Web 2.0 development creativity is actually happening, using the latest Web 2.0 software lists. A pretty cool data point.”

Google Maps Mania posted its review:

“Ryan Williams has put together a great new Google Maps mashup called ‘The Web 2.0 Innovation Map’”

Emily Chang added it to eHub and is going to let me see the entire feed. This will make the next step, adding brief descriptions to the listings so much easier.

Introducing the Web 2.0 Innovation Map. We all know Silicon Valley is hot when it comes to web startups. But, what about other areas of the country? Are there any hidden hotbeds of web talent? What other groups were in the northwest along with Fourio? These were some of the questions I was looking to answer. Now, Web 2.0 can be visualized, using what else, but the Google Maps API and Yahoo Geocoding API.