Slide 1: Brought to you by Spotting the trends of YOU!
Slide 2: 2007 TrendsSpotting Trend Review is Based on YOU! Methodology: 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.
Slide 3: “Product Of The Year” 1. Nominees >> 2. Trends Evidence 3. TrendsSpotting “Product Of The Year” Vs iPhone all the rest
Slide 4: “Product Of The Year” Google zeitgeist: iPhone is the No 1 – fastest rising global and in US. 1. Nominees 2.Trends Evidence >> 3. TrendsSpotting “Product Of The Year” Mainstream Media: Time declared iPhone as “The invention of the year”.  BlogPulse suggests iPhone was indeed a news generator. Graph 1: blog citations (by BlogPulse)
Slide 5: “Product Of The Year” 1. Nominees 2. Trends Evidence >> 3. TrendsSpotting “Product Of The Year” However xbox & wii seem to be starring in search and in forum discussions (see graph 2) during the holidays sales. Graph 2: forum citations (by Omgili)  
Slide 6: “Product Of The Year” 1. Nominees 2. Trends Evidence 3. TrendsSpotting “Product Of The Year” iPhone iPhone will make it to history pages.
Slide 7: “Issue Of The Year” 1. Nominees >> 2. Trends Evidence 3. TrendsSpotting “Issue Of The Year” Vs “Global Warming” “United States Election”
Slide 8: “Issue Of The Year”  1. Nominees 2. Trends Evidence >> 3. TrendsSpotting “Issue Of The Year” Global warming – is a Global issue . Search volume is much higher than “United States elections” (graph 3). graph 3: Google search (by Google Trends)
Slide 9: “Issue Of The Year”  Global warming is starring in blog discussions. 1. Nominees 2. Trends Evidence >> 3. TrendsSpotting “Issue Of The Year” graph 4: Blog citations (by BlogPulse)  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.
Slide 10: “Issue Of The Year” 1. Nominees 2. Trends Evidence 3. TrendsSpotting “Issue Of The Year”  Trends seem much warmer on “Global Warming”
Slide 11: “Book Of The Year” 1. Nominees >> 2. Trends Evidence 3. TrendsSpotting “Book Of The Year” Vs Harry Potter Amazon Best seller
Slide 12: “Book Of The Year” 1. Nominees 2. Trends Evidence >> 3. TrendsSpotting “Book Of The Year”  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: Graph 5: blog citations (by BlogPulse)
Slide 13: “Book Of The Year”  Harry Potter versus Amazon Best seller on forums: 1. Nominees 2. Trends Evidence >> 3. TrendsSpotting “Book Of The Year” graph 6: forum discussions (by Omgili)
Slide 14: “Book Of The Year” 1. Nominees 2. Trends Evidence 3. TrendsSpotting “Book Of The Year” “Potter Mania”  we are enchanted by
Slide 15: “Social Website Of The Year” 1. Nominees >> 2. Trends Evidence 3. TrendsSpotting “Social Website Of The Year” Vs “Facebook”  “MySpace”
Slide 16: “Social Website Of The Year”  MySpace still leads our interest: 1. Nominees 2. Trends Evidence >> 3. TrendsSpotting “Social Website Of The Year” graph 7: Google search (by Google Trends). graph 8: Blog citations (by blogPulse).
Slide 17: “Social Website Of The Year” On the contrary – 1. Nominees 2. Trends Evidence >> 3. TrendsSpotting “Social Website Of The Year”  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.
Slide 18: “Social Website Of The Year” 1. Nominees 2. Trends Evidence 3. TrendsSpotting “Social Website Of The Year” “Facebook” 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).
Slide 19: “Country Of The Year” 1. Nominees >> 2. Trends Evidence 3. TrendsSpotting “Country Of The Year” “Japan”  Vs “China”  Vs “The United States”
Slide 20: “Country Of The Year”  Japan: The leading country to blog and the one to promise a replacement for the internet , 1. Nominees 2. Trends Evidence >> 3. TrendsSpotting “Country Of The Year”  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 ). graph 9: Top countries in internet useage (by internetworldstats)
Slide 21: “Country Of The Year”  Going by blog citations our discussions seemed real hot.   1. Nominees 2. Trends Evidence >> 3. TrendsSpotting “Country Of The Year” Graph10 : Blog citations (by BlogPulse)
Slide 22: “Country Of The Year” 1. Nominees 2. Trends Evidence 3. TrendsSpotting “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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