For example, when I visited the site the graph showed the percentage success/fail of the big search engines; Yahoo!-Bing, and Google. The graph was easy-to-read and what’s more it was accompanied by a news story. This is something I found particularly fitting with Global Stat Counter – it gives the news as well as the statistics; I found this makes the graphs more credible and without them the site would just be a bunch of graphs with no real context.

There are several categories which Global Stat Counter keeps track of in the tech world. These include; Search Engine Usage, OS Usage and Browser Usage. Not only this but you can also  select where in the world you want to get statistics from. By default it is set to Worldwide but you can further narrow it down to continent or even to a specific country.

When you have found the statistic you want you can do one of three things; save it as a jpeg image; download it as an Excel document or embed it using the HTML embedding code provided.

Features:

• Keeps statistics in technology industry from around the world.
• Gets stats on Search Engine Usage, OS Usage, Browser Usage… etc.
• Stats are based on 5 billion pageviews per month collected from across the StatCounter network of more than 3 million websites.
• Ability to select particular world region.
• View stats as line or bar graph.
• Download the graph or save as image.
• Share graphs by embedding.
• Related news headlines are included.

Check out GlobalStatCounter @ gs.statcounter.com (by Dean Sherwin)

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• RiskyRoads: See Fatal Traffic Accident Statistics For Your Area
• MediaCloud: Visualize News Coverage On Internet

Features

• Visualize US government data by creating cool mashups
• Data sourced primarily from data.gov
• Easy to use. No programming knowledge required to create mashups
• Comment on mashups created by other users.
• Similar tools: ManyEyes, Cynergy Systems Map and VisualEconomics.

Check out DataMasher @ www.datamasher.org (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• MediaCloud: Visualize News Coverage On Internet
• Google Trends
• GlobalStatCounter: Global Web Usage Trends and Stats

Features:

• View Twitter trends based on locations across the world.
• Google Maps and Twitter mashup.
• Zoom in to find trends by cities.
• Click on the trend terms to see real time tweets.

Check out Trendsmap @ www.trendsmap.com (via Mashable) (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Features:

• Shows popular Wikipedia articles.
• Search and view trends for the Wikipedia topic of your interest.
• See trend changes for the a period of time.
• Check out “Trending” topics for last 30 days.
• See popular topics in the last 24 hours.
• Latest news related to the topic is also displayed.
• Similar tools: Wikirank and Wikirage.

Check out Trending Topics @ www.trendingtopics.org

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• Wikiwix: The Ultimate Wikipedia Search Engine
• Wiki: Search Only Encyclopedia and Wikipedia Type Websites
• SmartWikiSearch: Wikipedia Similarity Search Engine
• Navify: A Better Wikipedia (with Images & Videos )
• Fotopedia: Wikipedia For Images

To put it simply, it measures things like how many teens (12-18) have a Facebook profile, or how many adults between 18-35 have a broadband connection, who buy more online: women or men, what percentage of patients check for health on Internet, the actual number of adults playing video games and so on.

It’s one of the biggest free public research sources whose findings and reports are heavily cited by most mainstream publications and technology blogs all accross the web. All of their content is available online or downloadable in PDF format for free from their site, for personal non-commercial use. Users can browse reports by type and by publication year.

They have their own experts for different technology topics (social networking, broadband, web 2.0) whom you can contact by email, to ask questions or inquire about posted reports.

Features:

• Non-profit free public research source for technology trends in US.
• Focuses on how internet affects people lives.
• View all the content (reports, statistics, presentations) for free online or download in PDF format. For personal use only.
• Contact experts on different technology topics.
• Browse reports by type (presentation, dataset, commentary, media mention) and by publication year.

Check out Pew Internet & American Life Project @ www.pewinternet.org

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• Zinepal: Online Ebook Creator
• Ziipa: Web 2.0 Directory
• ZAPReader : Practise Speed Reading Online

From the page:

Media Cloud is a system that lets you see the flow of the media. The Internet is fundamentally altering the way that news is produced and distributed, but there are few comprehensive approaches to understanding the nature of these changes. Media Cloud automatically builds an archive of news stories and blog posts from the web, applies language processing, and gives you ways to analyze and visualize the data.

You can view 3 types of charts for each media source:

1. Most mentioned terms in each source.
2. Top 10 most used keywords in stories that contain a particular keyword (i.e. Obama).
3. Geographical areas with less and more coverage.

To view a chart, first select chart type, enter up to 3 media sources (start typing and select from suggestions) and press “Submit Query”.

Below is the visualization of news trends for two mainstream media organizations: New York Times and CNN.

Most mentioned news terms

Most covered geographical areas. Darker areas receive the most attention

Features:

• Helps you analyze the flow of Internet news for different media organizations.
• Visualize information as charts for each media source.
• Check out most mentioned terms in each media source.
• View top 10 most used keywords in stories that contain a particular keyword (eg. bailout).
• See most covered geographical areas.
• Free, no sign up.

Visit Media Cloud @ www.mediacloud.org

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You can also type in multiple search terms and compare them side by side. Very useful for those tracking certain events or if you would like to compare your popularity with someone else.

Features:

• Visually pleasing website with colorful graphs.
• Enter up to five search terms for a side by side popularity comparison.
• Search both single words and long phrases.
• Share your comparison chart by emailing a link.
• No sign up needed.

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• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage

The data can be easily filtered by a variety of factors such as time, location and categories. To get a better idea about the whole thing check out the popularity comparison for following search terms: oil prices vs. electric car, call of duty 2 vs. battlefield 2142 or yankees vs. red sox.

Features:

• Compare search keyword popularity across regions, categories, and time frames.
• Filter obtained data by region, time period and category.
• The result are presented with easy to grasp charts and maps.
• Export and download data in .CSV format.
• Also see related news headlines.
• For more information on how you can make use of Google Insights go here.

Check out Google Insights @ www.google.com/insights

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• Groovle : Custom Google Search Page
• Google Web History
• Google Trends
• Google Patents : Comprehensive Patent Search Engine

Features:

• Create and manage all-purpose charts from your iPhone
• Visualize data on a line, bar graph or a pie chart.
• Share your charts with others via email.

Apart from the Charts app you can find many other useful iPhone apps here. These include feedreader, calculator, currency converter, text translator, weekday checker, photo finder etc. See the full list along with a quick description for each app below:

* Start Me Up – Get quick access to all of your applications
* Budget – Track and Monitor your spendings
* Bestsellers – Shows current best sellers on amazon.com
* Currencies – Check the exchange rates for major currencies
* Compass – Get compass on your iPhone screen.
* Weekday – Easily check the day of the week for any calendar date
* Calculator – Fully functional calculator
* iPhone Apps – Check latest iPhone apps in the Apple Directory
* VAT Calculator – Calculate sales tax and VAT value
* Translator – Full text language translator
* State/City Quiz – Can you spot all states and capitals in the USA?
* Country Quiz – Can you name all foreign countries?
* Calories – Track your daily calories
* World map
* Morse Code – Morse code generator and sender
* Amazon Search
* Graph Plotter – Quickly plot graphs of functions.
* World time
* Countdown timer
* SpeedyMarks – Online start page
* Mileage – Track your gas consumption
* Play Basketball
* Sunrise and Sunset times
* Call Checker – Check the right time to call?
* Mandelbrot Set – Explore the beauty of the Mandelbrot fractal
* Workout – Control and monitor interval trainings
* Astro – Explore the night sky, moon and mars
* Games Counter – A simple game score counter
* SpeedoMeter – Measure your speed
* WorldWatchr – Monitor Webcams on your iPhone
* Widgetop – Dashboard widgets on the iPhone

Check out Charts @ charts.speedymarks.com

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• HohliCharts: Create Bar Graphs, Pie Charts and Venn Diagrams.

Feature Overview

- Compare traffic statistics of up to 3 websites simultaneously (see image below).
- Get Statsaholic bookmarklet: Quickly jump to the traffic graph of any website you’re browsing.
- Add favorite comparison charts to favorites.
- Browse though classic statsaholic match-ups (i.e. Yahoo.com vs. Google.com vs. MSN.com, Facebook vs. Myspace, etc.).
- Traffic data providers: Compete and Quantcast .

Check out Statsaholic @ [www.statsaholic.com]

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Some more cool stuff from Alexa

• Alexa: Movers and Shakers – lists websites that experienced significant changes in visitor traffic over the last 2 weeks. Sites that make to the positive part of the list usually have something interesting to look at.
• Browse web’s top sites by: Global 500, Country, Language and Subject
• Detailed traffic info for any website
• Compare traffic levels of up-to 5 websites simultaneously. Add comparison graphs to your website
• Browser toolbars (Firefox, Internet Explorer). Plus an option to create custom toolbar for your website.

Visit Alexa (http://www.alexa.com/)

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Additionaly

• Daily Top 100 (for today, yesterday, or any day)
• Compare Trend for several terms simultaneously (globally, by region, by time frame)

Visit Google Trends

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