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The New Oxford American Dictionary has chosen ‘unfriend’ as its word of the year. To ‘unfriend’ means to remove someone from your friend list on a social network like Facebook or MySpace (and we extend that to a similar pattern of “unfollow”  in Twitter). “Defriend” came in as a  close rival, but unfriend takes [...]

Recent findings of a Pew Internet study revealed, Twitter is being extensively used as a status update service to keep in touch. Youth (age 18 -44), social network users and users with access to mobile internet show early Twitter adoption symptoms. The study – Twitter and status update, was conducted in September 2009, amongst a sample [...]

In a beautiful thought-provoking project of Jonathan Harris (creator of We Feel Fine – one of the first social web emotion visualization projects), Harris shares some touching  personal insights with artistic inspirations relevant to a digital world. In this “World Building in a Crazy World” – Harris suggests 1-2-3 principals for a world building idea [...]

Google Latitude or other location based applications working through mobile phones can let you track your kids whereabouts during Halloween.   Aside from tracking, many of those applications can be used (note privacy concerns) for sharing the Halloween experience. Locations of retailers selling costumes and decorations can also be found by using applications as Poynt. [...]

Search Engine giant Google, has shown the world how it is reshaping the way communication happens over the internet with the soft launch of Google Wave. And it has done so in a way it knows best – through invite based viral marketing. The internet witnessed tremors of excitement when 100,000 exclusive invites to Wave were [...]

TrendsSpotting.com has released a slides presentation on its new published report:  Consumer and Market Trends during Recession – Cross Industry Research. Enjoy. Consumer & Market Trends during Recession – Cross Industry Research Report by TrendsSpotting.com View more documents from Taly Weiss. Click here to learn more about the report - Tweet This Post Plurk This Post [...]

Quoting Bloomberg, (July 26 2009) “The worst U.S. recession in five decades probably eased in the second quarter (2009) as trade and government stimulus mitigated the damage from declines in housing, inventories and consumer and business spending”. President Obama is similarly optimistic declaring that “the worst may be over in the economic crisis”. Is it really? Are [...]

Interbrand recently published “Best Global Brands 2009“, their annual brand equity report. TrendsSpotting examined the data and totaled the top American brands for the years 2006-2009. It seems that neither the recession, nor other economic forces, are affecting American brands’ global influence. As can be seen in the following table, American brands have reached the top 10, [...]

Google’s power lies in knowledge. The knowledge of what people search for. Google shares some of this knowledge as it updates their tool – Google Insights for Search . With a posteriori examination of historical trends – it suggests a basic model for predicting the next search trends. We can now improve the understanding of consumer behavior in variety of markets [...]

Trendsspotting Handbook of Online India View more documents from Taly Weiss. TrendsSpotting has released its new research cover: Handbook of Online India. Globally India is the seventh largest internet market. However, its internet penetration of slightly less than 3% points to tremendous growth potential. TrendsSpotting’s Handbook of Online India captures the most updated statistics covering modern India markets. Tap [...]