With Google Trends, you can compare the world's interest in your favorite topics. Enter up to five topics and see how often they've been searched on Google over time. Google Trends also shows how frequently your topics have appeared in Google News stories, and in which geographic regions people have searched for them most.

While Gizmodo reports on their ‘lonely’ Second Life visit to to the virtual CEBIT area of Sony Ericcson, it’s not the people-empty space that I found stunning.

Now, I'm saddened when I look at the front page of reddit and what is popular there.  It seems that the system has been overtaken by articles on the political, the weird and the arcane (and sometimes all three). 

Meet the 9 Consumer Types Shaping Today's Marketplace:

I'd like to share a peek into our latest process flow for our online community platforms.

Typically, webcasts have been employed in the technical and business-to-business marketplaces. Today, though, they are also earning rapid adoption from organizations that directly target members, communities or consumers.

After the webinar, you invite everyone on your registration list to participate in the online "conversation area" for that webinar subject.

Links to articles, white papers, eBooks and other stuff that's relevant to the conversation

And finally, what about the magical number seven? What about the seven wonders of the world, the seven seas, the seven deadly sins, the seven daughters of Atlas in the Pleiades, the seven ages of man, the seven levels of hell, the seven primary colors, the seven notes of the musical scale, and the seven days of the week? What about the seven-point rating scale, the seven categories for absolute judgment, the seven objects in the span of attention, and the seven digits in the span of immediate memory? For the present I propose to withhold judgment. Perhaps there is something deep and profound behind all these sevens, something just calling out for us to discover it. But I suspect that it is only a pernicious, Pythagorean coincidence.

Just as we don’t believe in functional specs for software, we don’t believe in functional specs for companies.

We're sure that somebody out there is enjoying Second Life, but why?

We market researchers are in the business of facts and statistics and so it was quite shocking to read this article in today’s Financial Times explaining how the statistic on Gross Domestic Product is manipulated beyond belief.

This is about to change, with a California  startup, Expo3D which develops virtual environments to communicate and interact with customers. The 3D system offers 3 desirable features:

But landing pages can be fraught with problems that turn visitors off and lower your conversion rates. Some of the common problems include: