Curious, fascinated and intelligently wasting time.

An OK tool I guess. The only problem I have with it, and so many other like it, is that it's solely based on Twitter.

When will we be able to see a tool that provides trends insights across all types of media?

This one nearly passed me by, but I have to say it does look very promising.

The UI is well designed and it seems to provide a nice layer of analytics.
The tools market is getting slightly cluttered now and every week I’m told about another piece of technology that’s going to change my world. If anybody is going to do something differently, or better, it’s going to be either Microsoft or Google.

A few years ago Google turned the Analytics market inside out when it released Google Analytics for free. Are we about to see the same thing happen to the monitoring tools market? Most probably so, and this is a GOOD thing!

The sooner we have clients toying with their own data, the sooner they will become comfortable with proactively engaging.

Clever thoughts. This post reminded of people in the US who have to pay for incoming phone calls. The charge for incoming calls makes callers subsequently conscious of their needs to communicate, and there is no reason why emails shouldn't work like this.

Blogs, Wikis and collaboration tools should be used to broadcast general messages across work groups, and these tools should leave inboxes purposed for the "important stuff".

All things said, to me the junk really is the magic stuff

It's good to see Google ramp up their efforts in the semantic web arena. Wolfram Alpha are now charging for their iPhone application and this, due to launch of the Nexus 1, is a bad move, as it reduces any chances of Wolfram Alpha gaining market share via the iPhone.

With semantic results being directly placed within standard search results, Google are already delivering efficiencies to their user base, across all platforms and devices.

Oh buggery somebody please beat them at something.

It's been ages since I've seen such a poor PR effort. Word about Detox is not new and this "rare" interview is nothing but a poor effort to plug Dre's headphones. Get on with it and release the fucking album already! Many elements of this piece are empty filler: purposefully placed to pad repetitive plugs about his technology line.

Nice infographics created from the government data store. It's great to see how both data and newspapers can be re-purposed for better clarity.