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Trendpedia – European Blog Search Engine

So we launched Trendpedia last week, this is our “showcase” product for Attentio. For the site we had cleaned the look and feel and added new sharing features – email, delicious, stumbleupon etc. The tool helps people see what is hot in the blogosphere across a big group of European languages. Kudos to Casper and Per for getting this out.

We have only really used social media to pass the message out plus some emailing, twitters and facebook from Caroline and myself. There will be a “traditional” release next week. There is already some good feedback from bloggers and we know we need to add a widget, help people add their blog to the index and increase the number of blogs and perhaps offer more date options (we have plans for a few other nice features).

I would like to thank Bruno, Tom, Andy and Tom DB for their helpful feedback and of course all of the other bloggers out there that have linked to the site or added more valuable critique. You can find out more of the buzz by checking out the Trendpedia site (I would say that, right?)…

Tracking Trends

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.

Consider this trend:

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?

Or this trend:

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.