In trekking through the Internet, one looks for peaks from which to survey the landscape.
It’s a bustling and bewildering bombardment of information. Isolating a trend can seem impossible. You know you’re not alone, but how to connect the scattered conversations that talk about your topics?
Fear not, weary trend trackers. Trendpedia is here. Attentio has just created a peak for pinpointing the Buzz that you want to see. Trendpedia is a search engine that tracks social media trends throughout the European blogosphere. It’s free, it’s fun and it can be a bit prophetic.
There’s talk of an EU President, a leader to rally the tribes of the European continent. The name that keeps popping up is the former Prime Minister of the UK, Tony Blair. His Buzz trendline on Trendpedia eerily echoes the trendline of the potential position. The two lines are moving closer and closer together. Could this be a match?
Out of the current lady soloists working their way up in the WOM (word-of-mouth) online, Yael Naim, the international Israeli-French vocalist swept the Palmarès Victoires de la musique 2008, and Leona Lewis got a number of nods at the Brit Music Awards 2008. But the real consistent crooner creating Buzz is the up and coming Welsh singer Duffy. She’s belted out a few ballads that are attracting a European wide audience on the radios and online.
June 18th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
I read through your articles and what interested me was the story about market analysis through product tracking. I know from reading on the internet that there is a new technology called RIFD tags which will be used to electronically label products for world wide monitoring. These tags could also be used to monitor human beings just like food products. Can you imagine human beings being tracked by radio frequencies through a new technology to keep track of them anywhere around the world.
RFID tags on human beings is like putting humans on the shelf, just like product manufacturing which will soon use this technology to keep track of food products. tagging food products could be a step before humans get tagged by this radio technology.
Just to keep you readers enthusiastic in this technology, I have also read about radio frequencies being used to read peoples minds. I dont think it should be that complicated because most of us dont really think very much. This technology was supposed to be around since the 1970’s but I am more interested about the future of radio frequencies in consumer products and tracking. Keeping track of human beings using this technology is probably the same as tracking where a can of beans is located in your local convenient store, how convenient that there could be a technology to read your mind and a technology to know where you are.
I have heard that RFID tags will launch very soon but I still dont know why the consumers are so anxious to know where there food is. I would like to know more about this technology myself, as the idea of using radio frequencies to do these things, amongst other things really intrigues me.
Market research is really important for bussiness related reasons and analysing consumer products. RFID tags could be a development in market research and consumer needs could be 100% accurate every time. If companies knew what the consumers wanted then the economy could benefit from this technology.
If all the stores knew what we needed, we wouldn’t need so many stores which is probably inversley proportional to the sizes of our behinds. The cost of opening and running new stores would also decline.