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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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3. “Product Of The Year”
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“Product Of The Year”
iPhone all the rest
Vs

4. 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”
“Product Of The Year”

5. Graph 2: forum citations (by Omgili)
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“Product Of The Year”
However xbox & wii seem to be
starring in search and in forum
discussions (see graph 2) during the
holidays sales.
“Product Of The Year”

6. iPhone
iPhone will make it to history pages.
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“Product Of The Year”
“Product Of The Year”

7. 1. Nominees >>
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“Issue Of The Year”
“Issue Of The Year”
Vs
“Global
Warming”
“United States
Election”

8. graph 3: Google search (by Google Trends)
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“Issue Of The Year”
“Issue Of The Year”
 Global warming – is a Global issue . Search
volume is much higher than “United States
elections” (graph 3).

9.  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”
“Issue Of The Year”
graph 4: Blog citations (by BlogPulse)

10. Trends seem much warmer on
“Global Warming”
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“Issue Of The Year”
“Issue Of The Year”

11. “Book Of The Year”
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“Book Of The Year”
Vs
Harry Potter
Amazon Best seller

12.  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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“Book Of The Year”
Graph 5: blog citations (by BlogPulse)

13. graph 6: forum discussions (by Omgili)
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“Book Of The Year”
“Book Of The Year”
 Harry Potter versus Amazon Best seller on forums:

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“Book Of The Year”
“Book Of The Year”
we are enchanted by
“Potter Mania”

15. “Facebook”
“Social Website Of The Year”
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“Social Website Of The
Year”
Vs
“MySpace”

16. graph 7: Google search (by Google Trends).
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“Social Website Of The
Year”
graph 8: Blog citations (by blogPulse).
“Social Website Of The Year”
 MySpace still leads our interest:

17. 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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“Social Website Of The
Year”
“Social Website Of The Year”

18. 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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“Social Website Of The
Year”
“Facebook”
“Social Website Of The Year”

19. “Japan”
“China”
“The United States”
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“Country Of The Year”
“Country Of The Year”
Vs
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20.  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”
“Country Of The Year”
graph 9: Top countries in internet useage (by
internetworldstats)

21. Graph10 : Blog citations (by BlogPulse)
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“Country Of The Year”
“Country Of The Year”
 Going by blog citations our discussions seemed real
hot.

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“Country Of The Year”
“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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