Is 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.
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).
Use social media sites to spot daily hot trends:
- Check the front pages of social voting sites: Digg, Reddit, etc.
- Delicious displays the huge cloud of most popular tags. Popacular lists the most popular Delicious bookmarks (also works for Twitter hot discussions).
- StumbleUpon lists its popular tags in the form of two tag clouds: one is for most recent topics and the other – for most popular “all time”.
- PopURLs aggregates the list of popular discussions from Digg, Delicious, Reddit, Yahoo Buzz and others.
- Flickr lists topics that have become popular in the last 24 hours, over last week or have always been hot.
- Deletionpedia (not exactly about the social media but still about discussions) offers you the list of most controversial (most discussed and then deleted) topics in Wikipedia.
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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This is very useful list to find some hot topics to blog… Thank you :-)
great timing. i was just searching the other day for these kind of sites.
once again MUO comes through!!
Great list, here is another great one. newsftw.com
digg,delicio.us,reddit,youtube
Two more sites to spot what’s hot:
viralvideochart.com
wikirage.com
Buzzfeed – buzzfeed.com
My favorite is popurls.com
It is awesome
DK
a couple of nice search aggregators you missed: addictomatic.com and newsflashr.com
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/
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 = popurls.tv
And My Favorite, Aggregating Digg, Reddit, Delicious, Hacker News, and Yahoo Buzz
that was
popurls.tv
and
oursignal.com
Is there a site that does this?
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.
My favorite is popurls.com
It is awesome…
great timing. i was just searching the other day for these kind of sites…
I’ll suggest boardreader (boardreader.com)
Thanks for the compilation
blogs.msdn.com/nportillo
My site is like popurls but it grabs stuff like digg best of 24 hours instead of the RSS, thepiratebay, mininova…
jimmyr.com/
Nice One… popurls.com/ seems to be the best
Nice list! Thank u! Keep ‘em comin’!
Nice!
hands down the best list I seen, great effort put forth in this! How about adding alltop.com ?
Yes, please consider Alltop.com. That is a really great site.
alltop.com/all lists all topics and alltop.com/ is the main homepage.
Great list…was researching on this topic a couple days back and this list came right along.
wow,your great list is usefull for me! thanks for great job brother!
that list make me update everyday
Hey, what about 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 invesp.com/2008/top-10-marketers-of-2008.html )
alltop.com
Great list! I highly suggest alltop.com for “All the topics, all the time”.
Thanks Ann, for this great list – BUT it really needs Alltop.com! alltop.com
Thank you all for your comments and nice additions! The end list is going to be huge!
Digg and Twitter are my personal favorites here. Nice compilation of list though.
I think this list needs two of the best sites of the web:
alltop.com, and popurls.com.
Thanks.
Where’s my favorite … ALLTOP?
alltop.com
John
You can save alot of time and energy by just using most-popular.alltop.com/
Alltop.com is my new favorite. Thanks for the others in the list.
Great list, but you are definitely missing the best of the best out there Alltop.com can’t recommend it enough.
This is very useful list to find some hot topics to blog… Thank you
Nice list! Thank u! Keep ‘em comin’!!
“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/
What? You left out Alltop? alltop.con
My new favorite is http://alltop.com/
Don’t bother listing alltop because of their stupid spamming with generic names over proxy.
alltop.com – for what’s going on in the blogosphere
Regator.com is also an excellent blog index (not an aggregator). They have a list of the most popular keywords on their front page.
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.
Yeah, i think this list needs Alltop.com to be regarded as “perfect” :)
obvious spam is obvious. Die alltop.com
Spam? Really, where?
Die Alltop.com? Is that German? Shouldn’t it be Das Alltop.com?
What about alltop.com? Should be heading the list!
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.
Alltop.com should definitely be on the list as well.
A tremendous source for finding news. I will definitly refer to this often!
Newspopl – newspopl.com/
Regator.com has a What’s Hot list for blogs (and it drills down into what’s hot in almost 500 different categories too).
It seemes to be a tremendous work.I think that iam getting all my desires in this single page and thanks to everyone for posting other links and have a prosperous new year.