Food Trend Blog

Having Fun with Bad Food

2010-08-12T16:31:00.001+10:00

Fairly regularly this past year I've come across images of unhealthy and or unappetising food, whether it's the menu, the photography or the food itself, there's an art to spotting, recording and collating gross-me-out food trends. Journalist Harmon Leon originally alerted me to the blog worthy subject of 'culinary-displeasing' photography with an eye opening article The worst restaurant food

Alexandre Dubosc Food and the Digital

2010-06-28T19:58:00.013+10:00

Here's a funky food animation by French photographer and digital artist Alexandre Dubosc. YouTube - Food about you - Festival d'Annecy 2010: This animation won Dubosc 3rd place in the Annecy Animation Festival you can view the winning animations on the Annecy Festival Youtube site. You can find a stream of images documenting the making of 'Food about you' in Dubosc's Flickriver photostream. I

Feed Your Journal Search

2010-05-25T10:32:00.002+10:00

jopml.org - get food technology journal feeds Developer Scott Wilson has created this website that gives you an OPML of RSS feeds for online journals. Type your subject matter into the search box and locate journal feeds. I've typed in "food technology" to locate 9 results. I can now subscribe to these through Google Reader.I used a screen catcher to preview this search for you. The search text

Netvibes All-in-One Food Trend Search

2010-04-01T23:53:00.011+11:00

Netvibes allows me to view all my feeds and search widgets on one page, saving heaps of time. I accessed this blog effortlessly from within Netvibes itself.I have email feeds and I'm wondering now if I can embed them rather than opening up my separate yahoo account? Yes there' s an email widget!I'm imagining a plethora of search feeds tabbed for easy access, just add pages for each search term,

Wiffiti- Tweek your Tweets and Trends

2009-08-16T21:58:00.010+10:00

Image courtesy of justmadeit Flickr.Locate Food trend Buzz via Wiffiti including real time search and display. Tag your Wiffiti screen with "Food Trend" or other food search term and Wiffiti immediately feeds results via Flickr and Twitter.Used with your mobile you can text directly to fellow food enthusiasts. Wiffiti is designed to be used for signage and LCD displays. It is effective for

Ubiquitous Consumption

2009-04-26T13:22:00.016+10:00

Image courtesy of Will Lion FlickrThe Future Internet: Service Web 3.0 Video Some questionsWatch the video link above in full then replay. What questions does it bring up for food providers and consumers?What is the ubiquitous web?Can you locate articles that link with and explain this future scenario further?Who does the 'Internet of things' best serve? How might it function? How will

Twizza Hut

2009-04-21T19:59:00.024+10:00

Image courtesy of TCM HitchhikerTweeting Becomes a Summer Job Option - NYTimes.comToday I found this link via @NLearning on Twitter. Pizza Hut is advertising a job for a Summer Twittern (a summer intern who uses Twitter).This looks to be both a preemptive and defensive publicity move by Pizza Hut, following on from recent bad publicity wreaked by former employees of Dominos Pizza chain on

Soul Food Cooker

2009-04-14T19:10:00.004+10:00

In Kenya Jon Bohmer has created an award winning cardboard cooker that tackles seemingly every one of the most pressing social/environmental problems today. Thank you Jon you demonstrate how as we nurture others we ourselves are taken care of, by your serving up solutions for the poorest among us, all beings are sustained. This philosophy could well benefit economics and governance.

Realtime Goodtime Food

2009-04-13T22:20:00.002+10:00

Image courtesy Ewan M FlickrRecently I've found a run of realtime searches integrating Twitter that incorporate local search and food search but of course with the added dimension of community. Food and community, that's a tasty combo!I've introduced the Locavore iphone/ipod app already so instead here are; @Locavore who Twitter resources/ideas for sustainance and sustainability.Aperitweat a

Locavore Lifestyle

2009-04-10T20:10:00.015+10:00

The word Locavore was added to the Oxford American dictionary in 2007 after being coined in 2006. It describes a way of living where food in particular is primarily sourced locally. It's about reducing carbon emissions by reducing food miles where one local tomato travels 18 miles while one supermarket tomato travels 1600 miles. But it's just as important to consider how each food travels, for

Locavore Locates Local Fresh Food

2009-04-06T23:54:00.005+10:00

Image courtesy of Ron1478 FlickrEnjoymentland » Locavore 1.0 is now available!Buster McLeod recently released Locavore a "powerful but simple application for iPhone and iPod" that uses built in GPS to find the freshest in season produce nearest to you. This app merges health consciousness, local, and mobile trends with the trend for Real Time Search ensuring access to the freshest information.

Even Faster Food-Pizza Vending Machines

2009-04-05T19:28:00.000+10:00

Image courtesy of Gio JL FlickrPizza-making machine has chefs in a spin | Oddly Enough | ReutersPizza made within 3 minutes from a vending machine is baked using an infra-red ray technology developed by the University of Bologna.Some questionsWhat niche does this product fulfill?What might this mean to local pizza shops?Would you eat it? Why?/Not?What health concerns might be raised?What might

BakerTweet Piped Hot!

2009-04-04T22:31:00.005+11:00

BakerTweet broadcasts a local baker's freshly baked produce to their nearby hungry followers using a (bakery proof) box that transmits wirelessly to Twitter. Some like it hot!clipped from www.bakertweet.comBaker TweetLovely, layered bloomers, french baguettes, sourdough, traditional bridge, and many more breads,

Edible Gardens

2009-03-30T10:32:00.011+11:00

Ann Cooper's essential TED Talk for all of the whys to get nutrition into schools, but significantly why gardens need to be a part of the school lunch agenda.Community food gardens are flourishing as people the world over link food, climate and economic chain reactions, and where better than schools to implement these? For schools 'Edible' gardens are an immersible learning opportunity, linking

Social Site For Food Redistribution

2009-03-23T00:20:00.023+11:00

Image courstesy of Jeffrey BeallDell Social Innovation CompetitionFood2.orgStudents from the Universities of UC Berkeley and of Texas have pulled together a team to compete for a $50 000 prize. The competition is being held by Dell in order to reward an innovative social venture model that solves a pressing world problem. Entries must be in by 6th April 2009.So far the university Food2.org team

D.I.Y Tea Infusions

2009-03-17T22:29:00.017+11:00

Green Tea Image courtesy of bkajino FlickrDesign a Tea : Design Your Own Custom Blend!A similar business and marketing model to the Custom Food Bar. But with the added intention of using both Fair Trade and organic ingredients, "where possible".For your very own D.I.Y cuppa start with your base tea, add up to two flavours, choose loose leaf or bagged, customise your packaging (custom labeling is

Smell The Future of Search

2009-03-12T23:35:00.010+11:00

Image courtesy of WasabiNoise FlickrThe DaVinci Institute - The Future of LibrariesSearch Technology is to become more complicated...Beyond image, text, video and audio search, future thinker Thomas Frey writes that taste, smell, texture, reflectivity, opacity, mass, density, tone, speed, and volume will all become search able attributes.Some QuestionsHow might this impact on Food bloggers?Food

Cadbury Dairy Milk Bars Fairtrade

2009-03-09T19:19:00.024+11:00

Image courtesy of publik15 FlickrCadbury builds Fairtrade awareness, bar-by-barFairtrade sourcing is moving mainstream as business responds to the ethical climate shift that consumers are leading. For Cadbury this means that their milk chocolate dairy bars only will be sourced from Fairtrade cocoa beans. The recently formed Cadbury Cocoa Partnership mediates the certification process for Ghanaian

A Customised Food Bar? C/o the Niche Web!

2009-03-04T18:29:00.021+11:00

Image Courtesy of MontanaRavenFlickrCustomized Nutrition Bars - You Bar - Build-a-BarThe current trend for bespoke and DIY customisation is the direct result of the web's long tail. The Long Tail is ecommerce jargon for how unique and individual products are served to the masses via websites. There are enough people searching for unique niche products that somewhere someone can cater for them and

The Value Added Blog Post

2009-03-01T21:18:00.023+11:00

Image courtesy of codepo8 FlickrAdding ValueWhen posting to your food blog quality is important. The point is not whether you are a success to your readers/peers. What is far more important than your personal blogging style is the quest for quality. How can I make the information better?The habit of quality is the habit of finding a better way, a better possibility, a better view, a better

Upcoming Food Trends in Review

2009-02-25T10:45:00.037+11:00

Image courtesy of Sixybeast FlickrHere's a review of the 2009 predictions by The Food People, a food trends agent in the UK.1. Comfort food• Nostalgia, feel good foods, treats.2. Scratch cooking and home baking• Raw ingredients, cheaper cuts, more cakes, sponges.3. Local (also see no's 6 & 9.)• Local regions, traditions, ingredients, breeds and species.4. Less protein• Meat is expensive. Eggs are

Search Leapfish-Faster

2009-02-15T23:50:00.003+11:00

With the plug "fastest Search" Leapfish aggregates search over multimedia in an easy interface. As a browser extension it sits in your search window and as a word is typed Leapfish immediately displays multiple results from video to blog results. Theres no need to hit the search button at all! I've put it into my Flock Browser 'tho it's optimised for Google Chrome. I prefer Mozilla Flock/Firefox

Meet the Food You Eat

2009-02-15T15:19:00.002+11:00

Prototyping BookView more presentations from eilidhdickson. (tags: tui design)Link 35950 - Carbon Footprint Comparisons at lovelearn.wordpressI located this link on Trendhunter. A design project from 3 students at Copenhagen Institute of Interactive Design models the impact that the foods we eat have on the environment. By placing food on a model scale, observers can see just how many trees are

Search Amazon for Market Research

2009-02-10T22:36:00.003+11:00

Current and categorised for you. These search results will help you with your food product development.Some questions to respond to:How might you ascertain the demographics for Amazon's Gourmet Food products? Why?How might you decide your own customer profile? Why?What does the site design tell you about the various categories? Why?How does ecommerce influence ingredient choices? Packaging

About this Blog

2009-02-10T13:57:00.009+11:00

New Media Literacies inform this Food Technology Unit. See Video above.These are the skills necessary to master the at times overwhelming inflow and outflow of information now and in future. "In a knowledge economy, the flow of information is the equivalent of the oil pipe in an industrial economy." Each person needs to be able to filter, assess, categorize, prioritize, critique, syndicate and

How to use Social Media to Market Food Products

2009-02-10T11:47:00.007+11:00

Image via CrunchBaseHow to Integrate Social Media into Product MarketingHaving begun your Market Research by setting up Blogger, exploring search engines, browsers, adding useful links and blogs, widgets and feeds you've covered a range of Social Media Tools for Food Trend Search.In order to profit from your research you'll want to use Social Media Tools for Food Product Development and

Chocolate Pie Chart

2009-02-06T22:27:00.011+11:00

Thanks to danzden for 'sunday pie chart' via Flickr CC SearchChocolate Fudge Pie Chart - information aestheticsThe current enthusiasm for all things visual thinking, visual search engines and visual graphing and mapping, loosely termed information aesthetics serves these Chocolateurs a piece of the pie.

Firefox Customise Google Search

2009-01-31T18:49:00.004+11:00

You can use CustomiseGoogle with your Firefox Browser to stream search fast! Remember that everyone is viewing the same top 1% of all results, so as a search sleuth that's reason enough to dig deeper...CustomizeGoogle is a Firefox extension that enhances Google search results by adding extra information and removing unwanted information.remove adsadd links to other search engines (Yahoo etc)use

From Flickr to your Blog via Net or a Mobile Phone

2009-01-30T14:41:00.006+11:00

Friday Night Tribute to Flickr! (a.k.a. Things To Do With A Mobile Phone) :), originally uploaded by dsevilla. Flickr's "Blog This" feature enables any food blogger to use exquisite images easily. Ensure that you use this feature with Flickr Advanced Search so that your images are creative commons only. Its a very good idea to comment on the photostream where you found the photo, so that the

Food Market Research

2009-01-29T18:51:00.012+11:00

Centro Commercial Food Market, originally uploaded by auntjojo.Growers, chefs and factories market their food to those customers who really want to buy their products. Market Research enables food producers to create products that their customers will buy. Alot of this research is interviewing, polling and observing customer's buying and eating habits. Sophisticated software including data

With Egg on Top!

2009-01-28T21:06:00.000+11:00

Anything With an Egg on Top: In the Magazine : bonappetit.comAccording to Bonappetit Magazine anything with an egg on top is on the menu.Su-Lin whose image I have embedded above says if you want to add an egg on top first make sure its fresh! It wont break and retain maximum flavour, colour.Add a little vinegar to the simmering water,whirl it with a spoon, gently poach. Slide it perkily atop

Rainbow Bento Lunch

2009-01-28T20:15:00.007+11:00

rainbow bento lunch, originally uploaded by tiffanywashko.The Food People have put out another PDF on Kids for a bit of retrospective food trend watching. But its far from nostalgic.The food trends concerning kids are all about patching up the wonky health patterns that are apparent after a couple of generations of fast food product development/marketing, not to mention water soil and air

Semantic Search Engine-Hakia

2009-01-28T12:00:00.005+11:00

Semantic Search allows for relevant search results. The Hakia Search Engine has a side by side Google/Hakia search results comparison.Semantic search is mainly for research/information gathering, rather than navigating to a specific document source. This open ended query lends itself to Food Trend Spotting.clipped

Search Wikipedia Articles

2009-01-28T00:47:00.005+11:00

Powerset Wikipedia Article Search.Powerset says- In the search box, you can express yourself in keywords, phrases, or simple questions. On the search results page, Powerset gives more accurate results, often answering questions directly, and aggregates information from across multiple articles. Finally, Powerset's technology follows you into enhanced Wikipedia articles, giving you a better way

Oh no, here come the Food Bloggers

2009-01-27T13:47:00.011+11:00

Oh no, here come the Bloggers, originally uploaded by Brett L..Why use Blogger?Blogger Video Privacy SettingsYou can use the Google Blogger platform to create class blogs. There are several boxes under settings that can be adjusted so that no one but your fellow classmates/teachers can view your blog. I highly recommend Blogger for Food Trend Spotting because of the interactive feeds, plugins,

Share your Trend Spotting with Google Reader

2009-01-25T22:17:00.004+11:00

You can share your Trend Spotting with your teacher/classmates using Google Reader. Only those feeds that you choose to share will be revealed to others. You can feed them into your individual/group blogs or into email or onto other sites such as Facebook etc.Getting Started with Google Reader

Search Specialty Food Archived Trends Old and New

2009-01-25T20:41:00.003+11:00

Specialty Food Magazine (USA) has archives of past food trends and current. Their site Advanced Search feature is below. Click on Advanced Search below. Alternatively search for "what's hot" in the Fancy Food Show (USA) link also found at Specialty Food, here.Produced by the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade (NASFT) since 1955, the Fancy Food Shows are North America's largest

Educational Video Bookmarks

2009-01-24T21:50:00.002+11:00

'Visual Bookmarks' with a focus on educational and particularly online learning videos.Use the Search function and/or add to the Nibipedia yourself/class. clipped from www.nibipedia.comWatch, Learn, Research, Teach.A nib is a visual bookmark on a video timeline. Nibs also recommend related videos. As the

Creative Commons Search Tools

2009-01-23T21:18:00.012+11:00

Video by Justin Cone explains Creative Commons in 2 minutes.Use this Creative Commons Search Tool to locate text, images, music, multimedia for your blogs, folios, reports etc.Ive intended to integrate this into my Firefox Browser-an Open Source Browser, I just have yet to work it out. I actually alternate between Firefox and Flock because Flock is fabulous for social media and yet many

Use Flickr "Blog This" with Creative Commons Images

2009-01-23T20:43:00.001+11:00

Flickr's "Blog This" feature enables any food blogger to use exquisite images easily. Ensure that you use this feature with Flickr advanced search so that your images are creative commons only.Its a very good idea to comment on the photostream where you found the photo, so that the photographer knows you appreciate their work and let them know your use/url. clipped from www.magazines.com search: Home: Cooking &

Twitter follow the Buzz

2009-01-17T22:25:00.003+11:00

Search Twitter for Food Trends and Trend Setters. Plenty came up here that did not feed into Friendfeed. Eventually these shuld come into Friendfeed as people realise just how dynamic Friendfeed is.Dont forget to use Advance Search and compare results.Follow a tweet if you feel and find the Trend Setter-what social feeds do they have?Do they Blog?clipped from online.wsj.com Search for: All Sources WSJ and Barron's WSJ Free WSJ Content Barron's Free Barron's Content DJ

Market Reports

2009-01-07T22:37:00.011+11:00

clipped from www.reportlinker.com ReportLinker is a professional search engine that provides easy access to 1.2 million market reportsand industry statistics published by 200,000 authoritative sources.Market Reports make use of Trends as profitable business opportunities which simultaneously

Blinkx Video Search Engine

2009-01-07T21:43:00.002+11:00

A veritable video feast, Ive clipped the Food Videos Category for you. clipped from www.blinkx.comShareThisblinkx Food Videos: Recipes, Restaurants, Cooking Shows.

Restaurant Menu Search

2009-01-07T21:26:00.003+11:00

Here it is! Menukarma Beta! For hard core Trend Sleuthing try searching (USA results only) menus by ingredients, style etc. I just tried 'quinoa' and found some beaut ideas for preparation of this ancient protein.clipped from www.menukarma.comSearch among 1,000s of restaurant menus for whatever you desire:

Restaurant Review Search

2009-01-07T20:15:00.004+11:00

Reading Restaurant Reviews can inform your trend watching skills. What is the reviewer looking for? What are the most popular restaurants serving?This search inspires me to find a menu search. I'm fascinated by menus. They come and go in the best of restaurants, they're far more predictable in more generic eateries.The Washington Post provides a search box for Washington USA Restaurants.Can you

Life and Style Search The Sydney Morning Herald

2009-01-07T00:06:00.005+11:00

Search The SMH Life and Style section for the latest food info under diet. While your here check out the related categories below. The blog 'Çhew On This' can also be found here. Ive listed it in my blogroll, Paula Goodyer's writing is thoughtful, topical and tasty.clipped from www.smh.com.auThe Sydney Morning

Search The New York Times

2009-01-06T23:16:00.002+11:00

Search The New York Times for Food Trends.There are regular journal series on 'food' which when read as a series give the reader an overview of issues. Issues in supply and demand whether agricultural, cultural or economic always effect food trends.You can actually search the box below. Clipmarks enables me to embed the search technology right into my blog!clipped from delicious.comSearching Everybody's bookmarks for: Search all of Delicious for “food trends 2009”deliciousSign in to search your own bookmarks

Functional Food Trends

2009-01-06T21:17:00.007+11:00

Top10 Functional Trends.pdfSloan Trends has provided a downloadable pdf of the Top 10 Functional Food Trends 2008. Functional Foods are those that are considered to have added benefits upon consumption. For example health benefits in particular, such as organic, reduced fat, high fibre, hormone free, reduced calorie and added nutrients.It is essential when reviewing such trends to understand why

Open Source Image Search

2009-01-06T14:57:00.004+11:00

Flickr: SearchYou can search for food images and use them in your blogs, portfolios and posters. However you need to be aware of the Creative Commons logo and its variants. Creative Commons indicates that the resource is copyright free however there are exceptions and you need to check what each logo indicates. Scroll to the bottom of advanced search and search only for copy right free open

Open Source Food

2009-01-06T14:00:00.006+11:00

Recipes, Food Photos & Discussion at Open Source FoodShare your own culinary creations or download others. This site has a recipe search box and there are professional contributors with beaut images."Content Available Under Creative Commons License Where Indicated. "Indicates that most of the content can be reproduced without infringing copyright. Please check out the Creative Commons logo and

Education is Preventable

2009-01-05T21:50:00.006+11:00

Governments and educators have failed so far in guiding people to choose health above processed convenience foods. Both the mainstream media and doctors have asserted that diabetes has no cure and heart disease is hereditary. Yet on October 15th 2008 Obama stated on national television that heart disease and diabetes are preventable, and therefore people must be educated on how to prevent these

Auctioned dinners a new Recycle Food Trend?

2009-01-02T17:35:00.003+11:00

Ok! This article is just too juicy to not pass on! Budding hospitality entrepreneurs take note! But dont tell your mothers I told you!Rejected Vegetable Auctions - Pre-Cooked Brussels Sprouts On eBayHowever Brussel Sprouts are truly not complete without a romantic spud!Bid on a Heart-Shaped Potato - Spuds on eBay(TREND HUNTER) If you've got a girlfriend or boyfriend

The Food People Trend Forecast 2009

2009-01-02T17:07:00.004+11:00

The Food People (UK) Forecast Food Trends for 2009 on You Tube.

Food Trend Setters- Chef Ferran Adria

2008-12-18T21:12:00.005+11:00

YouTube - Anthony Bourdain decoding Ferran Adria 1/14Which Chefs are Food Trend Setters? Try Ferran Adria, head chef at El Bulli in Spain, where alot of people try to get the few available reservations every year.This (1 min 26) introduction to the 'cooking laboratory' of an extraordinary master chef, is the first of a series about Ferran Adria found at this link.Or if you're really curious now

ASDA Lunchboxes

2008-12-17T22:54:00.001+11:00

TheDieline.com: The #1 Package Design Website, World's Best PackagingBlogged with the Flock Browser

Packagings of the World - Packaging Design Archive in a Package: Afro Coffee

2008-12-17T22:52:00.001+11:00

Packagings of the World - Packaging Design Archive in a Package: Afro CoffeeBlogged with the Flock Browser

Coca-Cola craves health drink market

2008-12-17T18:48:00.005+11:00

Coca-Cola could launch stevia drink ahead of FDA GRASWacko! This is stunning news, Stevia could well be mainstream already. This is a tricky ingredient to balance in cooking because by force of habit we equate it to sugar-which it is not.Use extremely sparingly like one sixteenth (less?) of a t spoon maximum. The thing is if you find the right amount you will have sweet baked goods, drinks etc

Chocolates claim tooth-friendly sugar?

2008-12-17T18:08:00.003+11:00

First chocolates released with tooth-friendly sugarBlogged with the Flock Browser

Thumbs up for Pasta fork

2008-12-16T12:44:00.010+11:00

Lifestyle - Calamete Calamente pasta fork set - Japan Trend ShopThis fork has a thumb. It enables noodle eaters to enjoy their fave strands without losing any!Blogged with the Flock Browser

Find Food Trend Conversations across Social Networks

2008-12-15T20:47:00.009+11:00

This is a brand new search service developed by Steve Hargadon Steve is currently convening Ning in Education.You can search across Ning, Blogger,Google Groups, Yahoo Groups,Twitter, Plurk, Jaiku and Twine. Or you can type in your preferred food trend below! I've used a service called Clipmarks to directly embed these search boxes into this blog.Conversations.net - HomeBlogged with the Flock

Replate: Spread the word

2008-12-14T12:23:00.007+11:00

Replate is an 'opensource' activism that encourages people to leave their bagged and uneaten leftover food on nearby rubbish bins for others to consume. This idea should inspire some discussion!Replate: Spread the wordBlogged with the Flock Browser

Food Trend Issues

2008-12-12T17:13:00.003+11:00

Image courtesy of eyeliamWhen researching Food Trends there are a number of topics that you can focus on to gather information. Some in particular might be significant for businesses to follow. Some are used by food writers in a particular niche. Chefs and home cooks may be influenced by all of these for economic as well as social reasons.Packaging–the latest packaging design and

The Forecasts according to The Food People

2008-11-13T17:09:00.006+11:00

The Food Trend Forecasts according to The Food People•Environmental consciousness•Health and Wellbeing-less salt, more fibre, more grains and more organic•New World foods-Peru is set to become the new wave in ethnic food•Ethical eating-fairtrade, airmiles and sustainability•Ethnic flavours-Hispanic, Vietnamese and Japanese•Water-expect to see water bars, water menus and even water sommeliers•

Specific Food Trend Search Across Google Maps

2008-11-12T23:27:00.007+11:00

Another resource for searching Food Trends, however this searches news in real time. This is particularly useful if wishing to track news reported about a specific food trend across various locations. You can literally map the conversation!Track news articles on any topic across the world, all in REAL TIME!Search Countries by.. Top 50 Top 100 All 255 Local. Eating minimally processed food from nearby sources has become an economic and an environmental necessity. Farm to fork refers to farms that are producing food locally and delivering that food to local consumers. This term is related

Sustainability Food Trends-Fish

2008-11-02T06:18:00.006+11:00

Image courtesy of shawdmImage via WikipediaResponsibility of Each ChefAttending the 2008 International Culinary Food Congress in NY, guest chef Barton Seaver emphasised a chef's responsibility to the oceans, imploring the audience to take the depletion of species seriously. Fellow chef Rick Moonen stated “If we continue our patterns of consumption, most of the species we like to eat will be gone

Google Trends Search

2008-11-01T00:44:00.007+11:00

Tip: Use commas to compare multiple search terms. // Searches Websites All regions ————————— Australia Austria Belgium Brazil Canada China Denmark Finland France Germany Hong Kong India Italy Japan Netherlands Norway North Korea Portugal Singapore South Korea Spain Sweden

Google Trends for Trend Watching

2008-11-01T00:19:00.006+11:00

// Tip: Use commas to compare multiple search terms. Examples good, evil coffee, tea You need to use at least two search terms eg organic foods, natural foods in the search term box in order to see a comparison graph of the term's popularity inside Google's search engine. The global searches for these terms are shown as a line graph next to each

Google Reader for Trend Watching

2008-10-31T23:58:00.006+11:00

utmx_section("Title") Welcome to Google Reader Beginners Guide to Google ReaderGoogle Reader Help Videos utmx_section("Intro text") Get all your Food Trends in one place with Google ReaderYou will need to create a Google account if you don't have one already.Every time you subscribe to an rss feed from your favourite chef, food blog,magazine or news source,

Google Alerts for Trend Watching

2008-10-30T23:54:00.005+11:00

Welcome to Google AlertsGoogle Alerts are email updates of your search term. Open a Google account or use the one you have already.Example enter the search term Food Trends 2009 or silver service trends, hotel service trends, organic wine, sustainable coffee etcCreate a Google AlertEnter the topic you wish to monitor.Search terms:Type:NewsBlogsWebComprehensiveVideoGroupsHow often: