BOULDER, Colo., July 15 /PRNewswire/ — Today Collective Intellect released the industry’s first web-based, automated, real-time text mining and analytics software for social media, traditional and corporate media. Collective Intellect’s Social CRM Insight Platform is designed to provide real-time, actionable insights to enable organizations to gain faster and richer insights as well as early warnings [...]

The debate surrounding the validity, longevity and value of social media has given way to a spirited discussion as to how companies glean insight from social media and leverage it across the organization. Download the white paper: Strategy for SocialCRM (PDF)

Collective Intellect’s proprietary, semantic search and analytics technology automates the capture of consumer “consideration and preference” metrics and insights from consumer generated content in a myriad of social media environments. Learn how in this white paper: Semantic Filtering (PDF)

Collective Intellect is augmenting its current data collection with publicly available data on Facebook, collecting tens of thousands of posts per day from popular categories available on Discussion Groups and Fan Pages. Learn more about how we use Facebook data: Point of View: Facebook (PDF)

Collective Intellect currently collects over 913,000 blogs from MySpace. Most of the relevant content for organizations on MySpace comes from blogs where users are sharing more of their thoughts and feelings than anywhere else on the site. Check out more of our thoughts on MySpace: Point of View: MySpace (PDF)

Check out Collective Intellect’s view on YouTube: Point of View: YouTube (PDF)

For months now we’ve been compiling data on upcoming films as they have been discussed within social media, looking at conversational volume, sentiment, and viewing interest so that we may have a good idea as to what’s going to be hot and what’s going to be a flop. Now it seems that someone else is on the scent as well. Word came to us last week via Mashable, the most obsessive social media news site on the web, that a study had been published demonstrating how Twitter has a high predictive power when it comes to box office performance. Suffice it to say, we weren’t too surprised.

As covered by Wired.com, Greg Rewis and Stephanie Sullivan (@hughart and @theunderwire) tied the knot on April 1st. Throughout the ceremony, family transcribed their vows in tweet form to share their special event with faraway friends, and ultimately the twitterverse. The tech-savvy couple made it possible for you to follow the event as well as send well wishes using the #tweetwed hashtag.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or lack a Gmail account), there’s no doubt you’ve heard of, tested or been genuinely confused by the launch of Google Buzz. One morning in February, I opened my Gmail account and there it was- 35 “buzz” notifications. “I must be popular”, I thought. After clicking into these messages, I realized I was not very popular, I was just inundating myself with more general useless knowledge about people I would have genuinely not heard from until my 20 year high school reunion. AWESOME.

The way I see it, people only watch the Oscars for two reasons. One, they want to see who’s going to embarrass themselves (thank you Elinor Burkett from Music by Prudence), and two they want to see what people will be wearing. With that in mind, we’ve run some statistical breakdowns of the social media [...]