Track Social Web Trends with Trendrr

I’ve just started playing around with a data-tracking tool called Trendrr. It allows you to create graphs that track keywords, photos, videos and blog mentions (among other things) for terms that you define. Then, you can view the things other Trendrr members are tracking and grab and post the graphs to your own Web page, social network page or PowerPoint presentation. (The latter is what I’m most interested in, since I have a presentation to give in a couple of weeks.)

One graph tracks news stories that mention “foreclosure” with news stories that mention “Britney Spears.” “Note the strong correlation,” the Trendrr member writes. And he/she is weirdly right.

The first thing I’m tracking is mentions of the terms (”social network” advertising skepticism) on Google Blogs and Google News. So far I’m not sure how to trend backwards (ie, for dates earlier than today) but it will be an interesting experiment. I’ll post results when I have them .

Trendrr will likely appeal to data wonks (like me) and to people with a passing interest in following what’s trendy online.