most shared and discussed items online

Gauging what is popular online can be done by using various resources. Blogs, Twitter, FriendFeed and more are all ways that people share information and content online. The following services help one stay current with what is being talked about online. Each of these resources can be tracked via RSS as well.

• Twitturly - tracks URLs being shared on Twitter, ranking them by popularity
• FriendFeedLinks - tracks URLs shared in FriendFeed, ranking them by popularity
• Digg - user voted ranking of top stories and URLs on the Web
• reddit - user voted ranking of top stories and URLs on the Web
• Google Trends - popular searched items on Google; can also view search term popularity over time
• Twitter Search - find out, in real time, what people are saying about anything - on Twitter