21 Sites To Find Out What’s Hot Online

What's Hot OnlineIs it important for you to stay informed of daily news? Do you try to always be up-to-date with what people are talking about throughout the world?

If “yes” is the answer to both of the questions, then today’s post on what’s hot online and how to spot internet hot trends is right for you!

Use meme trackers to spot daily hot trends:

  • Google Blogsearch that was turned into a meme tracker only a few months ago tracks memes throughout all topics and naturally has the biggest index to check.
  • Megite separates memes into categories (technology, entertainment, business, science, etc) and often publishes completely irrelevant memes in each.
  • Techmeme is the most popular technology meme tracker which is known to be the fastest to catch hot tech news.

meme tracker - what's hot on the web

Use blog search engines to spot daily hot trends:

  • Technorati Popular gives the list of top searches and top blogs (that have become hot in the past 48 hours).
  • BlogPulse key phrases allows for a “trend this” option that graphically represents the hot trend history.

Use search engines to spot daily hot trends:

  • Yahoo Buzz. Besides giving a list of the most popular terms, the service reveals the daily buzz score (i.e. “the percentage of Yahoo! users searching for that subject multiplied by a constant to make the number easier to read“) and the move (i.e. how fast this has become popular).
  • Google hottest trends gives a huge list of the most popular search terms. The best thing about the service is that it is constantly updated throughout the day.
  • MSN A-list lists daily popular headlines, top videos and movies and even most searched people and sport stories.
  • Aol.com hot searches shows you its “hot searches” of the previous day. They also add their own commentary to each search term explaining what the buzz is about.
  • Top Ask.com updates you on the most popular terms in general search, news search and even on most searched movies (past week). It will also show you top advancing searches (those that are the fastest to get popular).

what's hot on the web right now

Use social media sites to spot daily hot trends:

Use Twitter tools to spot daily hot trends:

  • Tweet Meme, as the domain name suggests, tracks and displays Twitter memes in a handy threaded style.
  • Twit Scoop shows “what’s hot right now” in the form of a tag cloud and the “Hot trends” list.
  • TwittUrly displays hottest memes in a Digg-like style (where Tweets = Votes).

Use ecommerce sites to spot daily hot trends:

  • Amazon tag cloud shows which tags Amazon customers use to classify products.
  • EBay pulse displays popular eBay searches.

Have I missed anything? Please add your method of spotting popular internet trends!

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Ann Smarty

Ann Smarty is an SEO Consultant, Internet marketing blogger and active social media user. Please follow Ann on Twitter as seosmarty

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  • http://www.techpavan.com Pavan Kumar

    This is very useful list to find some hot topics to blog… Thank you :-)

  • http://tenasillahe.wordpress.com/ g

    great timing. i was just searching the other day for these kind of sites.

    once again MUO comes through!!

  • http://www.arnima.com/blog DK

    My favorite is popurls.com
    It is awesome
    DK

  • JJ

    a couple of nice search aggregators you missed: addictomatic.com and newsflashr.com

  • http://cyberwarfaremag.wordpress.com Combat Nerd

    Google Zeitgeist offers a good overview of searches for multiples countries during the year (not daily though…):

    http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2008/

  • http://www.newsftw.com gunnard

    Great list, here is another great one. newsftw.com
    digg,delicio.us,reddit,youtube

  • http://mattkruse.com Matt Kruse

    Two more sites to spot what’s hot:

    http://viralvideochart.com

    http://www.wikirage.com

  • http://www.mgroves.com mgroves

    Aggreget.com – it’s how I found this article. It combines a lot of the “most popular” feeds from news aggregaters and finds the most popular overlapping links.

  • http://isonewzz.com Teddy

    My favorite is popurls.com
    It is awesome…

  • http://softkillerz.com Steave

    great timing. i was just searching the other day for these kind of sites…

  • QuestionThat
  • http://www.anonhouston.com ananon

    PopURLS is great.. but it’s part of a whole popular network
    TechNews = Blue.popurls.tv
    what’s hot by the hour, 24hour, and 72hour = http://www.popurls.tv

    And My Favorite, Aggregating Digg, Reddit, Delicious, Hacker News, and Yahoo Buzz

    • ananon

      that was
      popurls.tv
      and
      oursignal.com

    • http://MatchesMalone.wordpress.com/ Mike Shields

      Is there a site that does this?

  • Nestor

    I’ll suggest boardreader (http://boardreader.com)

    Thanks for the compilation

    http://blogs.msdn.com/nportillo

  • Amy

    Nice list! Thank u! Keep ‘em comin’!

  • JimmyR

    My site is like popurls but it grabs stuff like digg best of 24 hours instead of the RSS, thepiratebay, mininova…

    http://www.jimmyr.com/

  • http://thetechhub.com anoj

    Nice One… http://popurls.com/ seems to be the best

  • http://blogs.mithun.co.in/2008/12/06/glossary-of-essential-terms-for-a-web-20-developer/ Mithun

    Nice!

  • http://socialmediavision.com JustinSMV

    hands down the best list I seen, great effort put forth in this! How about adding alltop.com ?

  • http://www.demogeek.com/2008/12/16/translate-your-website-or-blog-to-different-languages-using-google-translate-gadget/ Google Translate

    Great list…was researching on this topic a couple days back and this list came right along.

  • http://branded-watches.blogspot.com/ tictoc

    wow,your great list is usefull for me! thanks for great job brother!
    that list make me update everyday

  • http://www.seosmarty.com/ Ann Smarty

    Thank you all for your comments and nice additions! The end list is going to be huge!

  • http://searchcorner.blogspot.com/ krishna@searchcorner

    Digg and Twitter are my personal favorites here. Nice compilation of list though.

  • http://HomeHeatingOilPrices.com john@HomeHeatingOilPrices.com

    Where’s my favorite … ALLTOP?

    alltop.com

    John

  • http://www.dogwalkblog.com Rufus

    Hey, what about http://alltop.com? This site pulls RSS feeds from almost every imaginable topic and saves DAYS of Googling. And that really cool new-comer Guy Kawasaki is spearheading this project (ranked #2 as the Most influential marketer of 2008 at http://www.invesp.com/2008/top-10-marketers-of-2008.html )

    http://alltop.com

  • http://www.virtuallyready.com Lisa Duhamel

    Great list! I highly suggest Alltop for “All the topics, all the time”.

  • http://gerardmclean.com Gerard McLean

    Alltop.com is my new favorite. Thanks for the others in the list.

  • http://kentbeatty.com Kent Beatty

    Thanks Ann, for this great list – BUT it really needs Alltop.com! http://alltop.com/

  • Franz Figueroa

    I think this list needs two of the best sites of the web:
    http://www.alltop.com and http://www.popurls.com

    Thanks.

  • http://www.simonsalt.com Simon Salt

    Great list, but you are definitely missing the best of the best out there Alltop.com can’t recommend it enough.

  • http://4homemag.com Steave

    Nice list! Thank u! Keep ‘em comin’!!

  • http://hi Inam-ur-Rehman

    This is very useful list to find some hot topics to blog… Thank you

  • rao

    Nice list! Thank u! Keep ‘em comin’!!

  • http://www.amie-nguyen.com Amie

    You can save alot of time and energy by just using http://most-popular.alltop.com/

  • Chris

    “trendalicious is a real-time ranking of the 100 most popular web pages as reflected by del.icio.us, digg, and reddit. URLs posted to those sites are collected and ranked by their total number of votes or links.” http:glozer.net/trendy/

  • http://alltop.com/ Stu

    My new favorite is http://alltop.com/

  • Joan Moore

    What? You left out Alltop? http://alltop.con

  • Allen

    Don’t bother listing alltop because of their stupid spamming with generic names over proxy.

  • http://champagneliving.blogspot.com Zipporah Sandler

    http://alltop.com – for what’s going on in the blogosphere

  • http://webmuncher.blogspot.com Anita Cohen-Williams

    Regator.com is also an excellent blog index (not an aggregator). They have a list of the most popular keywords on their front page.

  • Kathleen

    I don’t like Alltop — I find the lists particularly subjective in terms of the order in which sites are listed. In many subjects, the editors don’t seem to know what’s what.

  • http://setengahmateng.com gagahput3ra

    Yeah, i think this list needs Alltop.com to be regarded as “perfect” :)

  • Allen

    obvious spam is obvious. Die alltop.com

    • http://david-damore.blogspot.com/ David Damore

      Spam? Really, where?

  • http://gerardmclean.com Gerard McLean

    Die Alltop.com? Is that German? Shouldn’t it be Das Alltop.com?

  • http://www.gestix.com Alternate Solutions for Macintosh

    What about alltop.com? Should be heading the list!

  • Mary Ihla

    I agree that alltop.com should be on the list. I have lots of diverse interests, so Alltop is where I head for — well, ALL the TOP info.

  • http://profile.to/franmag/ Fran Magbual

    Alltop.com should definitely be on the list as well.

  • http://www.jesseliebman.com Jesse LIebman

    A tremendous source for finding news. I will definitly refer to this often!

  • Aggeragtor
  • http://regator.com Kimberly

    Regator.com has a What’s Hot list for blogs (and it drills down into what’s hot in almost 500 different categories too).

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