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Spotting the trend of YOU!

1. We examined “You” - writing on blogs and forums. We checked Your searches and votes and presented evidence for the trends. 2. Trends 2007 tools in used: search engines trends, buzz on blogs, forums, surveys, websites contests, mainstream media and popular blogs.

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“Product Of The Year”

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iPhone all the rest

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BlogPulse suggests iPhone was indeed a news generator.

Google zeitgeist: iPhone is the No 1 – fastest rising global and in US.

Mainstream Media: Time declared iPhone as “The invention of the year”. 

Graph 1: blog citations (by BlogPulse)

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“Product Of The Year”

Graph 2: forum citations (by Omgili)  

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However xbox & wii seem to be starring in search and in forum discussions (see graph 2) during the holidays sales.

“Product Of The Year”

iPhoneiPhone will make it to history pages.

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“Product Of The Year”

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“Issue Of The Year”

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“Global Warming

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“United States Election”

graph 3: Google search (by Google Trends)

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“Issue Of The Year” Global warming – is a Global issue . Search

volume is much higher than “United States elections” (graph 3).

Global warming is starring in blog discussions.

On the contrary “United States elections” made a loud noise in almost all main stream media across the globe. Presidential candidates are starring on Youtube as well.

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“Issue Of The Year”

graph 4: Blog citations (by BlogPulse)

Trends seem much warmer on

“Global Warming”

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“Book Of The Year”

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Harry PotterAmazon Best sellers

Harry Potter’s [25-30 M sold & most talked in Shelfari ] is incomparable with other notable Amazon Best sellers specially Gilbert's “Eat ,Pray ,Love”[ 4 M sold].

On the release day itself Harry Potter was “hot” not less than iPhone

Harry Potter versus Amazon Best seller on blogs:

“Book Of The Year”

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Graph 5: blog citations (by BlogPulse)

graph 6: forum discussions (by Omgili)

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“Book Of The Year” Harry Potter versus Amazon Best seller on

forums:

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“Book Of The Year”

we are enchanted by

“Potter Mania”

“Facebook”

“Social Website Of The Year”

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“MySpace”

graph 7: Google search (by Google Trends).

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graph 8: Blog citations (by blogPulse).

“Social Website Of The Year” MySpace still leads our interest:

On the contrary –

Facebook is catching up by overcoming Myspace in UK & Canada and receives credits by most influencers.

Only recently Facebook was declared People's Voice Winner of social networking at Webbys, and was nominated for the Company of the Year in AOL Best and Worst 2007.

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Going by stats:

The youngest accounts for a disproportionate amount of the traffic on MySpace and Facebook--and they don’t favor either brand.

Dual Facebook /MySpace users spent 26 % more time on Facebook (93 minutes per month ) - than did the average Facebook-only users (74 minutes).

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“Facebook”

“Social Website Of The Year”

“Japan”

“China”

“The United States”

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“Country Of The Year”

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Japan: The leading country to blog and the one to promise a replacement for the internet ,

China: burgeoning internet population that will soon overtake US

The United States ,China , and Japan are the 3 top guns in today’s internet (see graph ).

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“Country Of The Year”

graph 9: Top countries in internet useage (by internetworldstats)

Graph10 : Blog citations (by BlogPulse)

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“Country Of The Year” Going by blog citations our discussions seemed

real hot.  

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“Country Of The Year”

TrendsSpotting Country of the Year

“China”No doubt Asian giants are roaring up to take

the United States bull by horn.

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