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In a reflection of its expanding premium content strategy, YouTube has unveiled two new original channels focused on cars: Motor Trend and Drive. The Motor Trend channel, created by Source Interlink Media, will include original content from the likes of Motor Trend. Meanwhile Drive will take viewers behind the scenes and "[celebrate] the rich culture of cars." Content will include news, reviews and commentary from industry figures such as Chris Harris, Mike Spinelli, Leo Parente, and Alex Roy.

interesting article about the "ultimate professors of popular culture"- trendspotters :-)

Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers Internet Trends of 2012

 trends marketers need to keep an eye on in 2012.

A great example of visualizing a trend. COuld this be a good way to also show "overlapping trends" and/or imagine adding our "subway lines" in and out of these nodes...

List of 7 important social trends from the guys at The Next Web: Group buying, Q&A sites, mobile, Facebook Credits, branded content, Twitter monetizing, and Google to Keep on Failing. 

"Found at CNN.com/Trends, the section is a frequently updated countdown of the most popular stories on the web. A large CNN article anchors each spot, while a bar to the right and a drop-down "see more" option augment that with related news and analysis from other sources. "What we realized as we went about building this is that when a big story comes out, you don't just read a single source anymore," Zite CEO Mark Johnson told Mashable during a demo of the new section. "We want to facilitate that process in the product itself, so we thought why not use some of Zite's technology to do that?""

Display Business Trends for Publishers

I like this trend

2016 trend? Or too soon?

Not too soon but maybe part of a larger trend

2010 Retail Trends-- 

Newest trend from Trendwatching.com

Implications are two-fold: Advertising on Twitter will be more expensive; but if Twitter starts trying to maximize profit, they could run more than 1 promoted trend per day based on region, etc.