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TrendsBuzz: Hottest Trends on the Web in One Place, in Real Time

TrendsBuzz is a website that aggregates the hottest trends among popular search engines, news sites and social networking sites. What makes it different from other trend sites? You get the results in real time.

The main page of TrendsBuzz is divided in to two portions. The upper part displays the most searched words at the time you land on TrendsBuzz’s home page. The lower portion of the page displays the overall most searched words of the day. This will give you an overview of what’s hot on the web and on different news sites as well as social networking sites like Twitter.

The trends pages such as Google Trends are very valuable to some bloggers. If you want to get a piece of hot search engine action, they are the pages you should visit. A blog could get a large amount of traffic by publishing a topic found on a trends site/page depending on how well it fares on search engine page ranking or how well the blogger optimizes his/her topic for search.

Whether you are a blogger looking for a big story to write about or someone who just wants to know the hottest topic on the web through search, you should check out TrendsBuzz. You won’t have to visit different trends sites to know the latest buzz on the web. You’ll also discover other sites’ most search words through the service.

Tags: Hot Trends, Real time, Trends, Trends Buzz

Surf Together in Real Time with Screen2

Screen2 is a web service which allows you to navigate the web with your buddy in real time. There are many desktop sharing applications out there that allow you to do the same thing. The only difference in Screen2 is that it only lets you share the browser view and not the entire desktop. This will allow you to do other things while someone else is doing the surfing for you.

This web app is particularly useful if you want to do the surfing for a friend or let a friend do the surfing for you. Sometimes the web gets confusing and might need someone to guide you through it. It’s a great tool for showing online stuff to your friends in real time. Just choose a name and let your friend choose his/her Screen2 identity. Invite the screen name and you can begin surfing with your friend once the invitation has been accepted.

Screen2 does not allow you to see the cursor movements of the one in control of Screen2. It would have been useful if the cursor movements are displayed which will be a great help in live tutorials for navigating a certain web applications or sites.

Screen2 is an easy and safe application. There is no requirement of an installation of a software add-on in order to use Screen2. There is also no need to register for an account. All you need to do is to allow pop-up windows and cookies in your browser for Screen2 to operate properly. A chat feature is also available for additional collaboration.

Enjoy browsing together.

Tags: browsing, Real time, screen2, surfing

Mod My Life: Control People In Real Life, In Real Time

 

Mod My Life is the most hilarious and entertaining website that I have ever seen. It is new form of reality entertainment where you, yes you, can control a person in real life, in real time. Here’s how it works.  A mod is an action. You can suggest a mod by typing in something that you want the modstar to do. A modstar is the person you get to control, equipped with high end video, audio and mobile technology. When you suggest a mod, it automatically goes to a pool where other viewers can vote on the best. Votes are continually tallied and the winning mod will be sent out to the modstar to be performed.  You can think of a creative suggestion mod, vote for other’s suggestions or just simply watch what the modstar is doing, which most of the time is insanely hilarious.

When I logged in yesterday for a modcast, I watched  a modstar named Ray selling someone else’s car for forty dollars, then they made him walk on the streets of New York and yell “Yankees Suck.”  What I found amusing is that how the modstar faithfully follows the orders of the viewers. He may not like it, but when the voting is finished, he has no choice but to give it a shot and carry out the order. The modstar is contacted through a cell phone every few minutes or so after the voting for a mod is done to carry out the new order.

Tags: Control People, Mod My Life, Modcast, Modstar, Real time, Reality show online