Quick Pitch: Booshaka shows you what's trending on Facebook -- right now. Booshaka aims to show the freshest, most relevant posts across the social web.
Genius Idea: With 500 million members, Facebook is the largest social network in the world and one of the primary places on the web where memes get started and hot topics are shared and discussed. Booshaka is a trend engine that works to surface publicly shared Facebook content and identify network-wide trends in real time.
Just as is the case with real-time Twitter search engines, users can use Booshaka to search what people on Facebook are saying about any given keyword. Those interested in a more general, hot topic search can select from pre-determined categories -- think News, Deals, Brands and Gossip -- to dive into Facebook chatter and view what's trending.
Whether users define their own searches or opt for the category route, they can filter results for Trending Now, Most Popular, Most Buzz and Most Recent. Booshaka returns Facebook status updates as results and details total Likes, comments and buzz percentile. Users can then share individual results on Twitter or Facebook.
As a Facebook search engine, Booshaka is one of the first services to offer instant access to the public status updates resonating with Facebook users. For marketers, it could prove to be a useful utility in identifying the pulse of the people on Facebook, and for members it could serve as tool to catch up on the hot topics, news and gossip of the day.
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