A while back, I wrote about creating a hypothetical web service named BrandRank. Well, in a blog post today, David Pogue points us to a website, named Baby Name Voyager, which is, “an amazing, Web-based, interactive graph of baby-name popularity over time. Type in a name; specify boy, girl or both; and marvel as the graph shows you how that name’s trendiness has ebbed and flowed over the last 125 years.”
Check it out, it’s kind of cool. CLICK HERE
More importantly, however, is that we need something like this for brands. Type in a brand and it will tell you where it ranks in popularity for a particular product category. You can do boolean searches to see which is the most popular brand of beer among college graduates in metro Boston? Or what the most popular mountain bike for male college kids? What if I could search ThisNext for the most popular type of surf board now that Clarke Foam has closed its plant? Would that be viral? Yup, you betcha!
Not only is the information itself, in the baby Name Voyager, interesting but as Digg has shown with its own graphical displays, the way the information is presented is cool. This is one area where there is a ton of room for growth among the top visual bookmarking shopping web services.
A: (see blog title for question) We named her Dariana (nickname: Dasha). The derivation of the name is Daria which, as you can see from the graph above, was kind of popular in the 1950’s (probably in the Soviet Union) but has sort of dropped off the charts since then. Oh well, it’s still better than “Morgan.”
