1. Existing tools to analyze Blogosphere

2. IceRocket Ice Spy – Spy on what others are searching. Blog Trends – Identifies the trend of particular terms in blogs over a period of time. – Limited to 3 months time scale.

3. Ice Spy

4. Blog Trend

5. Technorati Watch Lists – Updates users whenever the term appears in a blog. – Terms could be a sets of words or URL’s. – Shows related tags and a tag cloud representation. Top 100 Blogs – Sort top blogs according to authority or number of fans.

6. Watch List

7. Top 100 Blogs

8. BlogPulse Trend Search – Similar to IceRocket blog trends. – Ability to drill down to the articles. Featured Trends – Trends for popular topics in different categories. – Like Iraq in News category. Conversation tracker – Track conversations between blog posts by providing a URL or a search term. – Starts from a seed topic and continues search by visiting each node only once.

9. Trend Search

10. Conversation tracker

11. Google Alerts