News from the companies of social media analysis, Attack of the White Papers edition. There will be a quiz on Monday.
Companies and services
- 2 December - Leximancer announced that Polecat will incorporate Leximancer technology into the Polecat Intelligence Application. press release
- 1 December - Jodange received a Small Business Innovation Research grant from the (US) National Science Foundation to support research into linking automatically extracted opinions to business outcomes. press release
- 4 December - SentimentMetrics launched version 2 of their web interface. Radian6 announced new features.
Question: Should I link to software update posts here? Most vendors aren't using version numbers in public, and there are few major launches to trigger coverage.
- Geoff Farris has joined Visible Technologies as senior vice president of sales. Farris was previously president and CEO of Bueller's, a private investment firm. press release
- Andy Lark points out two recent studies of online media use: EIAA Mediascope Europe 2008 (PDF) and Ofcom’s International Communications Market 2008 (press release).
- Anderson Analytics released partial findings from their 2009 US College Student Report, GenX2Z. The 5th edition of the longitudinal study focused on social media use among US college students.
- Biz360 announced a new report on online customer opinions on automobile brands (PDF). press release
- CIC released the first two parts of its third quarter white paper series, The Internet is THE Community: "The Chinese IWOM Landscape" and "Alternative Ways to Measure Internet Community Dynamics." via Sam Flemming
- Cision released a new white paper, Engaging Social Networks:
How to Find Your Community, Build Relationships and Gauge Your Influence Online. - ComScore released UK PC & Mobile Internet Usage Report. Along with profiles of user populations, the report shows 179% year-on-year growth of social networking use among mobile Internet users. press release
- Digimind released The Map: Top Pharma and Healthcare Sources on the Web.
- Epsilon shares from their CMO survey, "while just over half of the companies surveyed already use consumer data mining, 23% more said that they plan to utilize the technology in the next 12 months." press release, via MediaPost, AdWeek
- The IBM Institute for Business Value released Undressing in public: Harnessing the power of Web 2.0 to rebuild trust in banking (PDF).
- Nielsen released the 3Q08 edition of its Three Screen Report (PDF) on how US consumers divide their media consumption time. press release (PDF)
- Rubicon Consulting released Online Reviews Second Only to Word of Mouth as Purchase Influencer in US (PDF). via Ginandrea Facchini, Marketing Charts
Hi Nathan,
Thanks for covering our post on the new features. Your question is a good one... things are changing in the software world with SaaS and fewer are using version numbers and announcing major releases.
Saas model enables quicker iterations. We actually introduce new features every 4 weeks. We have more coming in 2 weeks, for example. We will likely keep posting the new stuff on our blog.
Thanks,
Marcel
You are always a great source of news, by the way, Nathan!
All part of my devious scheme. ;-) I'm thinking of adding a one-liner like this:
Updates: Radian6, SentimentMetrics
...with company names linked to the announcements.