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April 15, 2008 Hot Trends

Facebook’s Lexicon shows trends among its 70 million users - VentureBeat


Facebook’s Lexicon shows trends among its 70 million users
VentureBeat, CA - 1 hour ago
Many people already use Google Trends, which lets you see the popularity of Google search terms, to track what’s popular. If you care about what Facebook ...
Lexicon: Meet Facebook's answer to Google Zeitgeist CNET Blogs
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The Future of Web Apps

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:08:12 PDT
The Future of Web Apps showcases the successful web technologies and business trends of the future, delivered by the pioneers of today. Attended by all the major European and US start-ups and industry experts, it's the best place to learn directly from the developers, designers and entrepreneurs behind the web's brightest stars in a relaxed and...

Facebook Lexicon Launches - Google Trends for Facebook

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:44:48 PDT
Facebook has just launched a neat new trend mapping tool, called Lexicon. Similar to Google Trends, it allows you to create a trend graph for different words and (two-word) phrases on Facebook Walls. It has a surprisingly slick UI too, with the scroll bar enabling you to zoom in and out to get different views of the trend line. You can compare up to 5 different trends by separating words/phrases with a comma. Although Lexicon compares favorably to Google Trends, it has some flaws. In our test

US News Expands The Ranking Service

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:14:05 PDT
US News&World Report, an authoritative source for US university rankings has launched an auto ranking website in what seems to be an expansion move towards a general online ranking service.

CBC to boost newsgathering in Alberta, but drops Calgary Newsworld programming

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:39:49 PDT
The CBC will dramatically increase resources devoted to covering local and national news in Alberta generally and Calgary and Edmonton in particular. Saying it’s moving to fulfill a commitment to local newsgathering announced nationally last year, CBC News will be doubling the number of newsgathering resources in Alberta by adding approximately 25 new assignments for television journalists based in Calgary and Edmonton to focus on local and national stories originating in Alberta. At the same

TD Bank Echos CLC

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:15:44 PDT
Today, TD Economics released a very interesting paper on the Canadian labour market in 2007. I was pleased to see it highlight many of the same general trends that Andrew and I emphasized: the sharp decline in manufacturing jobs, the increase in part-time work, the rise of self-employment, and wages barely outpacing inflation in Alberta. Parts of the TD paper seemed quite familiar. For example, page 4 contains this discussion of manufacturing job losses: . . . it is true that job losses have

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