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The Economist Online Launches The Conversation Cloud
"The Economist vice president of product and community development Ron Diorio said: The idea of The Conversation Cloud is to allow readers to better navigate through conversations and to encourage and facilitate intellectual conversation between readers. Making The Economist Online more social is part of the site's transformation into the global hub for intelligent debate and discussion. Readers from all parts of the world regularly come together on The Economist Online to have their horizons stretched and their thinking sharpened. The Economist ignites their thinking."

Economist adds tools to highlight most-debated content
"When you access a site from the home page, you need to know where you're going. But the more people access articles from RSS feeds, social media sites and apps, the more the home page becomes defunct," he said. "Our research found people will read the comments before an article to decide whether it's interesting enough, and this tool is a direct result that."

The Economist Online launches 'Conversation Cloud'
Amanda Mesler, Chief Client Officer, Logica, said: "The Conversation Cloud is the perfect way for readers to get involved in the issues facing businesses and the world today - it's about getting voices heard. Logica is excited to be partnering with The Economist to spark conversations that will inspire and change the way people engage with content."

The three secrets to successful sentiment analysis
"Part of moving beyond aggregate, 'pulse' statistics is knowing Who said What. In many cases, for instance travel and restaurant review sites, the opinion holder is obviously the person who posted. By contrast, blogs and articles often cite others' opinions as do threaded conversations on forums and email lists. "

Lawsuit Advantage - Electronic Discovery Search-Strategy
"...An intriguing discipline that could yield new tools is linguistic analysis, especially sentiment analytics. A company computer analytics litigation named Jodange searches vast quantities of text in social media (Twitter, Facebook) to ascertain the opinion (the sentiment) of thought leaders or interest groups. It employs computer-driven algorithms to analyze, for instance, the compositional semantics within text (e.g., tweets on Twitter) to glean what, say, US consumers think of brand X. "

Customer experience and sentiment analysis
"There is no longer the notion that trusted information only comes from The New York Times," he says. "Once you get a handle on who is influencing your brand, that becomes actionable. " Influence analysis, analyzing digital breadcrumbs to see which individuals have the highest credibility and widest reach, should be a part of the overall text analytics strategy. "

Judging Goldman Sachs, Part 2
"When the sentiment data above is measured along with other metrics like stock prices and Google search results, public opinions about Goldman Sachs become increasingly more tangible and useful for journalists and analysts. People generally assume that a drop in Goldman's stock price is indicative of worsening public sentiment, but stock price analysis alone leaves too many variables uncontrolled to generate statistically relevant conclusions. This is just one example of how data analysis tools will improve as we continue to embrace Web 2.0. Very exciting stuff."

First International CIKM Workshop on Topic-Sentiment Analysis for Mass Opinion Measurement
Prof. Claire Cardie, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, to give a keynote lecture at First International CIKM Workshop on Topic-Sentiment Analysis for Mass Opinion Measurement, titled: "What were they thinking?! The Role of Topics and Opinion Holders for Fine-grained Opinion Analysis".

Search Takes a Sentimental Journey
One of the promising new ventures in this space is Jodange....The company was founded in 2006 because "we wanted to solve a really specific problem," Levy says. "We saw information online growing at an exponential rate." And keyword search ? that "blunt instrument," as he describes it ? wasn't hacking it. It's good at finding things, but woefully inadequate when it comes to extracting meaning.

Opinions Become A New Science
Larry Levy, CEO of Jodange, a firm that offers sentiment analysis technology, says "a bank is a business and should always be looking at how they're being perceived in the marketplace...who is saying what about your brand, competitors, executives, products and marketing.

Mining the Web for Feelings, Not Facts
"Jodange, based in Yonkers, offers a service geared toward online publishers that lets them incorporate opinion data drawn from over 450,000 sources, including mainstream news sources, blogs and Twitter."

The "Must-have" Tool Kit of Social Media Citizen
"Before starting the new cycle of posts discussing the startups' which may affect the lives of Social Media Citizens, I decided to share this "Must-have" list of social media tools which have already found their place in our daily routines."

Engaging Influentials: Twitter and Beyond
"As you consider new ways to share your story and build your reputation, learn from entrepreneurial initiatives that listen to and engage the influentials. Our first example is Jodange which helps you listen to and monitor the online chatter by influentials"

Suddenly, Three Innovations Turn Up!
"...I can only inadequately describe as an 'opinion collator,' from New York-based start-up company Jodange. You can try out the basic idea in three iGoogle Gadgets that track opinons on Energy, The Economic Recovery, and the S&P 500, but the really interesting bit is the 'Top of Mind' service, which applies linguistic analysis and collation capability to topics that you choose, rather than presets..."

A Mood Ring For The Internet
"When most of us read impartial news articles about a topic, we also wonder what the reigning sentiment is around the issue, out there and apart from the voices quoted in the piece before us. This is the subtle itch that an upcoming product from New York start-up Jodange is promising to scratch, for the benefit of publishers, marketers, and perhaps even stock-pickers."

13 Essential Social-Media 'Listening Tools'
"You're a marketer who's hip to the idea of social media: You have a blog for your company or client, you know Facebook inside and out, and you can Tweet with the best of them. So you've got the communicating part down pat. But the big question is, Are you listening? If you have customers, chances are they're talking about you to their friends, to their coworkers, and to anyone else who will listen. Here are some of the top tools for listening to and monitoring the online chatter about your brand:...."

Jodange raises $1.2 million to track online opinion-makers
"The N.Y.-based company develops software known as "sentiment analysis." It finds experts in a field, and determines the leading influence-wielders for a given topic."

Online Opinion Research by Semantics for Internet Business
"Jodange offers various solutions to monitor the social web or for the integration into content management systems at own websites. Considered tasks are described by the optimization of advertising campaigns regarding sentiments, the early analysis of reactions to new products, communications and market research in general"

Jodange Opinion and Sentiment Analytics Gets Funded
There is a lot of potential for this company to become a big player as the public conduit of information gleaned from the web... Hopefully some of these funds will be used for profile raising activities.

Our Sentiments, Exactly
"With opinions, so much depends on the point of view of the user," says David Pierce, chief technology officer of Jodange, whose sentiment analysis software grew out of a research project by Claire Cardie at Cornell University and Jan Wiebe at the University of Pittsburgh. Drawing on a body of theory in linguistics, philosophy, and computational linguistics, their team developed an algorithm that tries to determine the context of any particular statement by isolating three key data points: the topic, the opinion holder, and the opinion itself.

Top site to follow financial meltdown
Who's next on the DL list? Check out Jodange. I use their iGoogle gadget to follow the top 10 most-mentioned S&P 500 companies in the news and track who is saying what about them. Jodange might just be the best site to monitor the financial meltdown and predict/monitor who's next.

Internet Evolution: The Right Search Tool
Now, semantic Web search tools and other innovations are delivering the ability to start to home in on what people are most interested in, and how to serve up information to them, based on the fact that we know their purview, their point of view, their interests.

Jodange updates Top of Mind opinion discovery application
"The company's natural language technology engine searches for "sentiment opinions" in millions of documents on the Web and premium content sources, and attaches these opinions to a specific opinion holder and topic."

"In general, I see a number of reasons to be impressed with Jodange. They have a strong research background (investing in the science behind automated analysis is a key commitment often overlooked by companies in this space ... ); their formulation of the opinion mining problem is simple, but contains enough structure to ensure they focus on key questions (especially the problems of associating the opinion holder and the target of the opinion with the opinion itself); they have rolled out some simple but useful user experiences."

"Today, Jodange released two more Top of Mind widgets for iGoogle that tracks the sentiment about the political candidates as well as the sentiment of the candidates themselves on a series of topics. The first one, Candidate Pundit, analyzes news stories, political blogs, and other sources and does a semantic analysis of the text to determine whether the story is positive, neutral, or negative about a particular candidate."

"I can see this site being used by the "I told you so's" of the world, or by people looking to take weathermen or sports commentators to task for faulty prognostications."

"I can see this site being used by the "I told you so's" of the world, or by people looking to take weathermen or sports commentators to task for faulty prognostications."

"Built using the expertise of a bunch of Cornell University computer scientists, Jodange claims Top of Mind is already in evaluation with seven financial institutions."

"As a technology reporter [I see] a steady stream of gadgets, Web sites and other digital effluvia. But while often I find much to appreciate in all this, rarely do I see a product I want to use myself. This week, I saw such a product—an innovative new search engine for opinions that promises to make a journalist's job a whole lot easier ... Top of Mind sifts through hundreds of thousands of documents that track the Fortune 1000 and S&P 500 (everything from annual financial reports to financial blogs) to ferret out opinions and the people who hold them."

"The overlay charts with both sentiment and price trends suggest that Top of Mind will be useful in identifying which sources actually correlate to price moves. In the financial context, that's a pretty good definition of influence—correlation is as good as causation if it's consistent."

"From that data [Jodange Top of Mind] tells you which writers are the ones that either predict or influence the public markets. Why I like it: Because it's a real business."

"[Jodange Top of Mind] mines and indexes opinions across the Internet, allowing for a distinct perspective on significant topics. How negative was Hillary Clinton the week of November 17? What is the oil industry's view of the recent rate cuts by the Fed? Answering questions this specific was previously impossible without hours of research. You just can't find this stuff on Google. Period."

"Top of Mind can analyze ... articles and blogs, even when they are written in first, second or third-person. Users can track historical information about companies, including stock prices (with historical charts) and opinions that coincide with the daily activity."

"Now you can search on what people think, or their public opinions that is. There is nothing else like it on the Web."

"[Jodange isolates] people's opinions about topics to let users know who is most worth listening to ... This would fit in with Google's enterprise search products, appealing to financial and retail analysts."