April 25, 2005

trendalicious! "trendalicious is a near real-time view of website popularity trends as reflected by the del.icio.us social bookmarking service. All URLs that have been posted by a minimum of two people in the past fifty minutes are displayed, ranked by the total number of recent posts.

So I was just toying with the idea of making a meme-watcher, that kept an eye our for new trends and how strong they are. I was considering a combination of watching blogs and google, but this seems like a pretty handy way to start it. Were I to do some modifications, I would include some more statistics (like google's zeitgeist) and graphs and the like. It could easily balloon from there.

posted by Sandspider 19 years ago
  • There's also del.icio.us/popular/ for similar data. It would be nice if trendalicious had actual trend data, so that we can see a plot of popularity versus time. Unless I missed a link somewhere, it's not much different from the popular listing.
  • Yeah chimaera I've been haphazardly looking at both and hadn't been struck by anything particularly individual. That said, maybe I haven't been taking enough notice or looking at them both near the same time. *another 24 secs of my life gone* But then again, it's good to trawl....I wouldn't want all my links to be found first at the top of the cool kid's pile.
  • I've seen that the lists are fairly different, peacay, but it seems that's only because of a different application of business rules. The Popular page may include rules like requiring a critical mass before it's listed at all, and rather than the last 50 minutes, it may be 90 or 120... But the observation remains that I don't see much value added to what del.icio.us already does on their Popular page.
  • Sometimes it feels like I'm chasing lists rather than links ;- )
  • ...and lets not forget populicio.us either