Trendrr and Lexicon

I promised I’d report back on my experience with Trendrr. I just checked and here is my graph of the appearance of the words ["social network" advertising skepticism] in Google News articles. Though I’ve been tracking since April 2, the chart only shows data from around April 16 and I can’t figure out how to change it.

At any rate, it’s not much of a data set, yet. However, it appears the data has been viewed 30 times so somewhere out there a few others are apparently interested in tracking the same thing.

In the meantime, Facebook just launched its own trend tracker, Lexicon. It tracks the mention of words on Wall posts. Interesting scraping technology at work here - all anonymous, of course, but there are bound to be some embarrassing and potentially hurtful things people will do with this. Will be interesting to watch.

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One Response to “Trendrr and Lexicon”

  1. dustin Says:
    April 30, 2008 at 11:41 am

    Hi, graphs default to showing the past 2 weeks worth of data. You can change this by clicking ‘customize’ and changing the start date. You can then save your change if you are logged in. Hope that helps.

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