In 2007 a statistics from the 2007 Year-End Zeitgeist tells us that these words was most popular during 2007.
iphone
badoo
facebook
dailymotion
webkinz
youtube
ebuddy
second life
hi5
club penguin
The fastest rising keywords in US were
iphone
webkinz
tmz
transformers
youtube
club penguin
myspace
heroes
facebook
anna nicole smith
Well, lets face it, trends are created by events or happenings in the world as well as launching of movies or any bigger sports event like olympics and so on.
So what will be the trend for 2008?
It is not easy to prognose as some events comes unpredictable such as deaths of famous persons or any havoc or natural disasters.
However, Olympic games in China will be a safe better to be a keyword that will be popular during 2nd and 3rd quarter of 2008.
I will not give you any more tips, but you can read my short text book in www.lulu.com/stig if you want more details of keywords i predict would make it in 2008 and help you create traffic in 2008.
We know that anna nichole smith was the most popular search word in 1st quarter of 2007 in the US, as virginia tech was in the 2nd quarter of 2007. In 3rd quarter of 2007 the keyword vannessa Hudgens were the most rising keyword, and in 4th quarter of 2007 the word pavarotti and red sox had their peaks. All driven by events in the region or globally affected at that time.
Best of luck and we will make a summary in end 2008 and see who was right or wrong. Maybe we both were wrong?