News from the companies of social media analysis.
Companies and services
- 20 October - Critical Mention announced CriticalWeb, a new service for tracking video and images on the Internet in near-real time.
- 22 October - Lexalytics introduced Salience 4.0, the first new release since the company's merger with Infonic’s Text Analytics Division. Central to the upgrade are improvements to entity extraction, sentiment scoring and thematic extraction. press release (PDF)
- 19 October - FirstRain announced a new partnership with FactSet Research Systems that will add FirstRain's web-sourced data into FactSet's Marquee platform. press release
- Social media researcher Akshay Java defended his dissertation, Mining Social Media Communities and Content, and will join Microsoft Live Labs next month.
- The dataset for the ICWSM 2009 Data Challenge is now available. via Akshay Java
- Social Computing, Behavior Modeling, and Prediction, due 5 November. via KDnuggets
- Semantic Technology Conference, due 24 November.
Current posts on the job board
- Senior Director of Partnership and Digital Marketing, GMR Entertainment (New York)
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