Viralheat Democratizes Social Media Analytics with Free Social Trends Service

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Social Trends

"We firmly believe that social data and analytics should be affordable and accessible to everyone."

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) August 24, 2010

Viralheat, the simple and affordable way to get analytics on the social web, today announced the release of Social Trends, a new service that delivers social media analytics for free, and makes them portable with easy-to-embed widgets and a free API. The company also announced Social Trends for publishers - a service that will enable publishers to tap into Viralheat's system and integrate real-time data and analytics into editorial content.

Social Trends democratizes data that was previously cost-prohibitive to the average person or business and is one of the first business-grade products on the market to make sophisticated analytics from sites like Twitter, Google Buzz and Facebook completely free to all. Fully customizable and embeddable charts within Social Trends also allow users to combine data and stay up-to-date with their favorite trends or people.

"We firmly believe that social data and analytics should be affordable and accessible to everyone," said Raj Kadam, Founder and CEO of Viralheat. "Our core product is already among the most affordable on the market, and Social Trends democratizes our analytics even further by making it possible for anyone to keep a pulse on the topics that interest them and even take that data with them across the web."

Features of Social Trends Include:

•     Completely free access to thousands of amazing profiles ranging from news, entertainment, sports, music, and politics. Live Updating.
•     Social media analytics where you want it how you want it - users can embed Viralheat real-time analytics widgets on their blog or website and share unique stats with their Twitter and Facebook friends.
•     Users can create their own unique live-updating social media charts for any topic.
•     Harnessing Viralheat's sentiment analysis technology, widgets come alive showing the true feelings on an event, movie, company, product, politician or celebrity.

Social Trends for Publishers Include:

•     Support to build unique real-time dashboards for any topic of interest to the publisher audience.
•     Tools to drive more traffic to the websites by allowing users to embed these charts on their blogs and share interesting stats on Twitter, Facebook and other social networks.
•     Present your readers with unique data that keeps them coming back, creates new real-estate for advertising, and ultimately drives more revenue.

Social Trends API Features Include:

•     Completely free access to developers, no need to be a paying customer of Viralheat
•     There will be 2 calls available:

•     No API Key required.
•     Unlimited number of Calls, no restrictions or throttling
•     Includes the subset of analytics from Twitter, Facebook, Google buzz, Real-time web and viral video.

"We're proud of the innovative work we have done on our platform to make it possible for us to give data and analytics away to the world for free," said Vishal Sankhla, Co-Founder and CTO, Viralheat. "One of the core values at Viralheat is that this data should be accessible to everyone in the world, and this value is coming true thanks to our fanatical focus on building the most scalable and efficient product on the market."

Social Trends is available for free to anyone today at: http://viralheat.com/social_trends

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About Viralheat
Viralheat is a simple and an affordable way for brands, agencies, marketers and content producers to monitor consumer generated content on social networks. Users can identify key trends, understand community engagement and perform competitive analysis.

Founded in January 2009, Viralheat was built with fanatical focus on scale, speed, data analysis and low-cost using the best techniques in large scale network monitoring and P2P cloud computing. Start monitoring for as low as $9.99/month, for more information please visit http://www.viralheat.com/

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