Were you thinking newspaper folks were starting to wise up?

Narrative Science automates the creation of editorial narratives across a wide range of content verticals. Their technology application requires no human authoring or editing and can be used to generate narratives about any event that produces significant quantitative data (think sports, financial, health, community data).  Saridakis saying kthxbye to Gannett

Content automated like your ILECs and ISPs always imagined it: Are Sportswriters Really Necessary?
 

Cool 2008: A farthing for your thoughts

The Gartner "2008 Cool Vendor in the High Performance Workplace" is:

SEATTLE, Aug 13, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Visible Technologies, a leading provider of social media monitoring and engagement solutions, today announced it now analyzes more than 100 million social media conversations -- from blogs, wikis, forums, Twitter, social networks and other online hubs -- to help brands engage with consumers online, enabling the company to quadruple its sales in 2008.

They gain actionable intelligence for "brands":

Visible Technologies captures and analyzes the entire conversation thread, including comments, where 70 percent of social media conversations occur. By allowing customers to listen to, learn about and engage with customers online, Visible Technologies has seen sales rise 300 percent this year, compared with the second half of 2007.

They are "analyzing":

Visible Technologies analyzes an average of 425,000 unique pieces of social media content per day on behalf of its clients.

For what clients?


Relevance inside Chatter:

With a broad view of the online landscape, Visible Technologies enables brands to focus on relevant content within the chatter and gain actionable intelligence in order to interact effectively with consumers. Industry validation continues to provide proof of the critical nature of accurate social media-tracking.

Quotes

"Companies are increasingly trying to determine how to embrace social media strategically and tactically. Clients who want to get actionable intelligence from the full thread of conversations choose TruCast for its comprehensive analysis of both the original content and ensuing comments. Our extensive data and work with leading brands show clients how and where to engage when they want to address customer-service issues, gain insight for media buying or drive community activation in a campaign. We are pleased with the momentum we've built as brands continue to invest in this channel for engaging with their customers." - Adam Selig, CEO of Visible Technologies. link

“Google is not a search engine. Google is a reputation management system. Online reputation is quantifiable, findable, and totally unavoidable...”- Clive Thompson $

Hello?

Does anybody making much of Friendfeed, Seesmic, Qik, Pownce, twhirl, Phrazit, fire eagle, Dopplr, etc., make anything of this?

Are our innocent joies de Tweet enabling market impetus for deep, always-on, persistent and panoptic commodification, archiving and monetization of what used to be considered our interiority -- motions of the soul?