Facebook Lexicon

[DreamThrall]

So Facebook has done something similar to Google's Trends and called it Lexicon, and basically it crawls everyone's walls and other public messages.

http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=13856412130

The Wall is a really interesting place to look for buzz, because when one person writes a post on a friend's or a group's Wall, tens, hundreds, or even thousands of people might see it; those viewers may read, digest, and pass on that information, spreading it virally. So when my friend Kasey wrote on my friend Blaise's Wall saying how she really liked the movie Juno, I saw her post and knew I had to see it for myself. It seems like a lot of users share her sentiments; excitement about the movie grew significantly when it was released in early December.

You can compare up to five different words or two-word phrases and see how many people talked about that term each day. As long as enough people mentioned the term, it will show up on the graph.

Here's one I did... note the interesting peaks and dips around the end of the year holidays:

http://www.facebook.com/lexicon/index.php?q=poop,cookies,cake,pie


EDIT: Oops, this was supposed to go in General... can someone move please?

 

[Shakermaker]

The graphics suck and the gameplay is utterly boring. In other words, wrong sub-forum.

 

[DreamThrall]

Yeah I noticed

 

[Dekstar]

This was totally released on certain torrent sites weeks before it was released in stores anyway.
But srsly, it's pretty cool, kind of like that google battle thing. I wonder if people will start spamming things just to influence it.