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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."

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."