We recently carried out a survey of conversation monitoring agencies as part of our work on a report for Contagious, some free extracts of which can be viewed here.
In recent years several companies have emerged to provide insights into the levels of online conversational activity around their clients. These companies use a widely varying mix [...]
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A survey of ten leading online conversation monitoring companies
April 22nd, 2008 by Ben · 12 Comments
Prince: My Vague Suspicions Confirmed
November 7th, 2007 by Dan O'Connor · 2 Comments
Let us turn our attention now to the world of funk, dear friends, wherein we find tiny purple pervy popster Prince all a-twitter (but not, as this story will make clearer than a cold martini on a winter’s morning, a twitter-er, as it were). Apparently, Paisley Park’s most famous midget is sore vexed that his [...]
Halo, Sailor…
September 25th, 2007 by Dan O'Connor · 2 Comments
Look, I’m as in favour of User-Generated-Content as the next journalist who can’t be bothered to write their own copy and thinks that the rantings of five racists from provincial market towns more than adequately makes up for the dearth of expertise in contemporary news media, but I can’t help but feel that the BBC, [...]
Musicovery: a late discovery
September 25th, 2007 by Iain MacMillan · 1 Comment
Via those nice chaps at Music Choice, something that I’d missed from last year - an extension of Musicplasma that allows you to find new music via genres and moods - and then via a map of the relationships between artists.
Not quite sure why this one is resurfacing. I liked Musicplasma, but after a bit [...]
How Sexism Retarded the Internet (and how the internet will make us all anarchists, possibly)
September 5th, 2007 by Dan O'Connor · 2 Comments
Just read a fabulous article in The Guardian about Don Tapscott and his new(ish) book, Wikinomics. There’s a splendid little story therein which recounts how, in the late 1970s, Tapscott and a couple of other computer nerds hooked some old PC’s together (”a network, you might call it,” cutes the article) and, realising how this [...]