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You probably have seen many visuals that help map out the social networks and various newish businesses. Things like Social Media Landscape, Social Network Hype, or even just the logos.

What the Conversation Prism attempts to do is to categories the type of conversation that is happening on these products/services/sites.

Brian Solis is the creator of this (viusal by Jesse Thomas) and he describes it in his blog post as “a living, breathing representation of Social Media and will evolve as services and conversation channels emerge, fuse, and dissipate.”

The nice thing about this illustration is how it captures the changing business model of these services and how they fit against the rest of the color wheel of online discussion and chatter.
Here is a few Q&A on ZDNet.