Please add new links in the alphabetical order provided

 

 

A.

 

 

Account Planners of New York Facebook Fan Page

 

A virtual town hall for planners on Facebook.

 

Alexa

Traffic rankings. Good for comparison mostly.

 

B.

 

Blogtrends

A useful tool from Nielsen that lets you track what's buzzing in blogs

 

Brand Positioning and Mapping Tool

A useful method for creating a brand template and visualising how well the product extensions reflect the core brand's values.

 

Business Exchange

A-Z list of aggregated business topics, articles, research, intel. Good for social, digital, mobile.

 

C.

 

Canvas8

Global online resource offering authoritative and original opinion on leading consumer trends. The blog is available here and the main service here.

 

China Business Feature

Valuable resource for trends in technology, media and business in China.

 

Compilation of visual research tools

An interesting list of link to some visual research tools

 

Customised Plannersphere Search Engine

Search all the planners' blogs. And nothing else.

 

D.

 

Desk Research Tools

Comprehensive presentation and list of links of useful desk research websites, tools and inspiration from the IPA

 

Digg Labs

Real-time visualization of what people are digging.

 

E.

 

F.

 

Flickr Planning Eye Group

 

Flickr Search Tool (Airtight)

 

Flickr Search Tool (Compfight)

 

The Four Humble Demands of the Prosumer

Planning interactive projects? This might help you help your audience achieve both your goals.

 

G.

 

Google Analytics

 

Google Trends

 

 

H.

 

I.

 

Internet Quotes

Quotations about the internet.

 

J.

 

K.

Know Your Meme

Website documenting Internet phenomena: viral videos, image macros, catchphrases, web celebrities... 

 

L.

 

M.

Media Publications Database

A database centralizing publications about (new) media. These are white papers, research reports but the website focusses mainly on graduation papers of "digital natives".

 

N.

 

O.

 

Overview presentation from Simon Law from WCRS on Insights

 

P.

 

 

Planners On Twitter - A list of all planners who twitter, with links to their Twitter pages.

 

Plannersphere Top 20 - a monthly tracking of the top planning blogs from around the world

 

Planning Tools & Hacks - A resource of off-beat and non-obvious tools for planners.

 

planning periodic table

 

popurls.com

The day's (up to the minute I think) most popular URLs from digg, del.icio.us, reddit, flickr, youtube, newsvine, metafilter, news.google, news.yahoo and many, many more.

 

Predictive Pre-Testing - A New Model for Ad Pre-Testing Based on Prediction Markets

 

Q.

 

Quantcast

Traffic rankings, but with more estimated demographic data.

 

R.

 

S.

 

Social Explorer

Interactive maps of demographic data in the US from 1940 to now. Really cool stuff.

 

Social Media Monitoring Tools

List of free SM monitoring and measurement tools online.

 

Statosphere - A daily dose of statistics to help the marketer start - or finish - an argument.

 

Swivel - Research Sharing Site

 

T.

 

The Four Humble Demands of the Prosumer

Planning interactive projects? This might help you help your audience achieve both your goals.

 

ThinkExist Quotations

Source for finding quotes. 

 

 

TrendFreaks - Facebook

Trendfreaks group in Facebook is dedicated to those of us who get a kick out of spotting and playing with trends. We use web trend tools to report interesting observations, display trends by stats & graphs - and initiate public discussions .

 

 

TrendsSpotting -Internet trends: marketing research & predictions

 

TrendRoll - user generated trendblogs directory, which maps out the best trendblogs

 

 

 

Twitter Fan Wiki

A guide to current/historical Twitter icon memes. 

 

tvmediajargon.wetpaint.com

A wiki for TV media planning and evaluation language

 

 

U.

 

unplannd - a pandora's box of social media resources

 

Useful lateral thinking thesaurus

Says what it is really, a really clever thesaurus, I can't explain just try it. Great for helping with positionings, and getting you started in interesting territories

 

V.

Visuwords

Online graphical dictionary and thesaurus: finds meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Pretty too.

 

 

W.

http://www.wordle.net/.  A great way to display themes from your research using keywords. Worth taking some time out to have a play and to see how it can work for you.

 

X.

 

Y.

 

yahoo pipes - information aggregator example

 

Z.