Synthesio announced Hospitality, a social media monitoring tool for hotels. The new service is the second vertical market specialization from Synthesio, which released its SportTrack service—developed with TNS Sport—last year.
July 2009 Archives
Recently announced software updates:
- BurrellesLuce
Online video coverage. - iMente
RSS output. - InsideView
New information sources: Thomson Reuters, Capital IQ, Cortera and NetProspex. - Scout Labs
UI updates, new quotes feature. - Trackur
Sentiment tagging.
2–7 August (Singapore) - ACL-IJCNLP
6 August (London) - MeasurementCamp, 10:00 AM. Check the web site for confirmation of the location.
10–12 November (Seville) - 1st International Workshop on Mining Social Media (CFP)
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and analytics provider SPSS (Nasdaq: SPSS) have announced a merger agreement in which IBM will acquire SPSS for $50 per share, or approximately $1.2 billion. The acquisition follows IBM's April announcement of a new consulting practice focused on business analytics.
SPSS offers a text analytics workbench, PASW Text Analytics (formerly Clementine), that operates within the company's data mining environment. While focused on internal company data, it supports RSS feeds to provide an entry into social media analysis.
Recently announced software updates:
- Networked Insights
SocialSense 2.0: UI changes, analytical feature adjustments, new emphasis on verbatim excerpts, content alerts. System architecture changes to improve speed and scalability. - Synthesio
Chinese and Russian language support.
21 July - Vocus is presenting a free webinar, Monitoring the Social Media Conversation: From Twitter to Facebook, 14:00 BST (GMT +1). The session is intended for a European audience and features Jenni Lloyd, Social Media Consultant at Nixon McInnes, and Neil Stinchcombe, Managing Director at Eskenzi PR.
21 July - Satmetrix is presenting a free webinar, Delivering an Award Winning Voice of the Customer Program, 1:00 EDT (GMT -4). The session features Laura Books and Experian's Laura DeSoto.
23 July - Vocus Virtual Conference, How to Effectively Leverage Social Media, 10:00 AM–6:30 PM EDT (GMT -4).
2–7 August (Singapore) - ACL-IJCNLP
6 August (London) - MeasurementCamp, 10:00 AM.
10–12 November (Seville) - 1st International Workshop on Mining Social Media (CFP)
Alterian plc (LON: ALN) has announced its acquisition of Techrigy. The all-stock deal is reported to be worth between $0.6 million and $4.1 million, depending on performance, plus the assumption of $0.9 million in shareholder loans. Alterian offers a marketing technology platform that brings together email, web content management, and analytics. The company has a global presence supported by office locations in eight countries.
Related: Techrigy Acquires Andiamo Systems (May 2009)
Recently released white papers:
- From Twitterviews to Tweetups: Putting the Social in Media, BurrellesLuce
- Business Case: Tekelec (PDF), Digimind
- Fluent, Razorfish
14 July - dna13 is presenting a free webinar, Using Business Intelligence to Build Corporate Reputation and Support Strategic Decisions, 11:00 AM EDT (GMT -4).
15 July - WOMMA is presenting a free webinar, Do You Speak Social? Social Web Literacy and the Future of Brands, 12:00 PM EDT (GMT -4). The session features iCrossing's Antony Mayfield.
16 July - InsideView and Miller Heiman are presenting a free webinar, How to End the Roller Coaster Sales Cycle, 1:00 PM EDT (GMT -4). The session features Jill Konrath and Miller Heiman's Bill Golder.
21 July - Satmetrix is presenting a free webinar, Delivering an Award Winning Voice of the Customer Program, 1:00 EDT (GMT -4). The session features Laura Books and Experian's Laura DeSoto.
23 July - Vocus Virtual Conference, How to Effectively Leverage Social Media, 10:00 AM–6:30 PM EDT (GMT -4).
2–7 August (Singapore) - ACL-IJCNLP
10–12 November (Seville) - 1st International Workshop on Mining Social Media (CFP)
Phase2 Technology has announced Tattler (app), an open-source social media monitoring tool based on the Drupal platform, with text analytics using Open Calais. Tattler evolved from The BuzzMonitor, which was originally developed by the World Bank and a group of development partners.
Tattler (app) is currently in testing. Phase2 plans to announce the availability of the software to a mailing list (sign up on the web site) and through Twitter (@tattlerapp).
Related:
- BuzzMonitor - open-source blog monitoring (June 2007)
- Tattler (app) Entering Private Beta (August 2009)
Gnip and PostRank have announced a partnership that adds social media content and metadata from PostRank to Gnip's content aggregation service. PostRank (formerly AideRSS) collects RSS content and adds a proprietary engagement metric for ranking and filtering.
- Gnip blog
- PostRank blog
- press release (PDF)
Viralheat announced the launch of their social media monitoring platform today. Priced from $10/month, the entry-level tool provides keyword search, alerts and volume-based metrics on a variety of online sources. The company offers a free, 7-day trial.
TechCrunch posted a longer description.
The European social media intelligence specialist Attentio announced changes and additions to its management team today:
- Amaia Lasa is promoted to CEO. Lasa originally joined the company as COO in 2007.
- Co-founder and former CEO Simon McDermott moves to a new role as United Kingdom Country Manager and Chief Communication Officer.
- Principal founder Per Siljubergsåsen becomes Chief Product Officer.
- Frizo Janssens is appointed CTO.
- William Klippgen joins Attentio's board of directors. Klippgen is executive director of BAF Spectrum Pte Ltd and co-founder of Kelkoo.com.
Recently announced software updates:
- BrandsEye
Geolocation. - eCairn
Blog profile management, multi-project support, UI updates. - Scout Labs
Streamlined bookmarking, links to Google Blog Search and Twitter, pagination for media sources, permalinks for email alerts.