Mike MacLeod

Who is talking about your company or your brand? Or better yet, who is talking about you? And what are they saying?

Startup SamePoint plans to provide just that information by aggregating results from social networks, Twitter and blogs. It also attempts to hilight positive and negative discussion about a topic by identifying complimentary and critical words.

User-generated discussions are typically not indexed by major search engines, such as Google, as they do not reside on static pages. SamePoint converts these discussions into permalinks and organizes them within a tag cloud.

Displayed here are some results from a search on WPP, who has had a lot of press lately about their acquisition of TNS.

SamePoint has a long way to go in features and aesthetics. However, this type on social media data mining is on the verge of exploding.

I was really hoping that the first post of my relaunched site would be upbeat. Unfortunately that’s not the case. I wanted to get something up about this, even though I’m still under construction.

Earlier this week, Harris Interactive announced a layoff of 51 people. I believe this is their fourth round of layoffs this year.  That really sucks given the financial situation - not to mention that it’s a week before the holidays.

In addition to my friends and colleagues at Harris, I know of other really great people that have lost their jobs over the last couple of months.

So, please contact me and tell me how I can help. If you need a connection, or a reference, or if you just need to talk give me a shout.

And keep your chin up.  Things always work out for the best.