WonkosphereWe are happy to announce the launch of Wonkosphere.com, a free web service which helps you stay on top of the 2008 U.S. Presidential Race.

Wonkosphere tracks over 1200 political blogs and web sites to provide timely and unbiased analysis of the 2008 Presidential race. Wonkosphere measures the buzz share and tone for each candidate every four hours, and highlights the most representative and influential posts. Crawdad's patented text analysis technology provides the engine behind Wonkosphere.

Please visit us at http://www.wonkosphere.com, and our blog at http://wonkoblog.com

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Press releases

12.12.2007, Internet Likeability Favors Huckabee and Edwards over Giuliani and Clinton

11.07.2007, Internet buzz accurately predicts polling results

10.08.2007, Blogger’s obsession with Hillary suggests wide-open race

9.08.2007, Romney and Clinton Lead Wonkosphere Buzz Share in August

News

Thanks to everone who has helped spread the news about Wonkosphere: Wired Magazine, Information Week, The Caucus at NYT, US News and Daily Report, USA Today, Random Musings, Arizona Republic, Political Mafioso, Paperholic, Pointblog, Bloggin Outloud, Alexanre Xiradakis, Debsweb, NancyatMySpace, Blue Collar Muse, The Van Der Gailen Gazette, Dustbury, jCircadian, MyDD, Digital Trends, Personal Democracy Forum, 76003.1414, Duamu, Google News, The Agonist, Yahoo News, Web Metrics Guru, One Mom, Central Sanity, Team Huckabee, Ron Paul Forums, Andrew Sullivan, Lew Rockwell, Fraters Libertas, Ranting & Raving, Good Tithings, M Rebman, Misadventures in Politics, Research Buzz, Dreaming Awake, The Washington Note, AZ State Press, Reformed Chicks Blabbing, Blogaxia, Milspouse, The Net Savvy Executive, Libertarian Common Sense, Thinking Out Loud, Killin Time Being Lazy, The Queen of Snark, Roofers Forum, Denver Post--Politics West, Thunder Run, UltiMitt, Government Bytes, If This Be Treason, Writes Likes She Talks, Poynter Online, Just Hillary

Special thanks for Zero Hour Marketing and Forty Media for their excellent efforts during the launch of Wonkosphere.

Our friends at Grid7 have done a story on Crawdad. Check out the podcast.

Cold Stone Creamery is using Crawdad's Listening Post to monitor blogs and myspace for buzz about their product.

Unclear about what "Web 2.0" is? Check out Kevin's article here.

Steve's work concerning communication strategy and anti-terrorism has made a big spash, check out the links here and here.

Our friends at Wallstrip.com have been purchased by CBS. Here are some guest comments we made on Howard Lindzon's blog, concerning Marvel Comics, Jones Soda, and Kelloggs.

 

Crawdad Listening Post™ 1.0

It is a brand new world.  Opinion, conversation, and social networking dominate the landscape of today’s Internet.  There are 20 million blogs in the U.S. alone and that number has been doubling every six months.  More and more, the buzz on the Web influences behavior of consumers and investors.  Do you know what they are saying about you, and about your competitors?  Are you listening?

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The Crawdad Listening Post™ is a web service for anyone who needs to track discussion on the Web about a brand, product, politician, celebrity, or issue.  The Crawdad Listening Post™ monitors web sites, blogs, social networks, discussion boards, chat rooms, newspapers, and periodicals and provides you a summary of what is being said, performs trend analysis on sentiment and volume, and highlights the posts and stories that you are likely to be most interested in.  With your own Listening Post™ web page, you will be able to respond immediately to emergent brand-related threats and opportunities.  By measuring Internet buzz, Listening Post™ also provides you a way to measure the impact of new product introductions and marketing campaigns.

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Crawdad Desktop 2.0

Crawdad Desktop 2.0 is for customers who need a state-of-the-art text mining toolkit for their research and analytical needs.  Crawdad Desktop 2.0 was specially designed for academic researchers and students who need to accurately and deeply analyze qualitative data.  Crawdad Desktop 2.0 provides key word scores, concept mapping, browsing, full-text search, comparison, clustering, and theme analysis capabilities. Crawdad Desktop 2.0 embeds our patented technology, Centering Resonance Analysis. If you normally hand-code your data, you'll find that Crawdad Desktop 2.0 will cut your data coding time by 95%, and your results will be completely reliable. If you've used other computerized text analysis software before, you'll find Crawdad 2.0 both analytically powerful and easy to use.

For more information about Crawdad Desktop 2.0, go here.