Cloud-based online video platform Brightcove has launched = Brightcove 5, with increased mobile support, YouTube Sync, Apple HTTP streaming, advanced analytics for HTML5, and more. “The improvements include advanced distribution methods with more social sharing to help brands get the most mileage, drastically expanded support of mobile platforms, expanded analytics to gauge how online video campaigns are performing, and other [...]

The TIBCO Spotfire Web Player now offers a touch screen experience for the iPad. Developed to support the iPad native multi-touch interface, the latest release of the Spotfire app makes mobile analytics and business intelligence available to anyone, anywhere. This on-demand offering is designed to enable anyone to create, publish, and share custom dashboards or reports for analytics and BI [...]

Millions of consumers each month provide their opinions using OpinionLab’ opt-in, open-ended feedback system originally patented for websites. OpinionLab is launching a new product which enables companies to capture and analyze consumers’ social media conversations using the same methodology as its opt-in web and mobile solutions. Social Media Monitor extends the reach of its core products to allow brands to [...]

Mediafax Monitorizare launched today a social media monitoring service, which will monitor in real-time over 27,000 blogs and almost 12,000 Twitter accounts in Romanian. The service will start at 100 Euros per month. The new service, Mediafax Monitorizare (www.monitorizare.mediafax.biz) conducts searches and analyses based on keywords defined by the clients. Data are archived; trends can be monitored.

Jungle Torch offers an intuitive dashboard that provides a complete social network analysis for twitter, blogs, and news. Jungle Torch identifies relevant posting and also at the same time provides a complete sentiment analysis. This allows you to quickly determine if comments are trending positively or negatively. The social network analysis capability allows users to monitor what is said about [...]

Lee Odden, in this post on PostRank, reviews 5 new tools. Reinvigorate is an amazing real-time web analytics tool with hear maps. It has monthly, daily and hourly page details. There is even a dumbed down free version and a free trial. TwentyFeet is an SaaS dashboard aggregates social stats from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and bit.ly all on one place. [...]

planetRE, a leading technology provider for online real estate, launched planetRE CM™; the first interactive unified client communication management platform for the real estate industry. This browser-based service, provides Facebook property search together with CRM, multiple social media channels and predictive modeling & analytics. The new SaaS platform consists of planetRE RealFace™- an agent branded Facebook property search engine; a [...]

The author, Azam Khan, says in this post in Social Times that the key to selecting good analytics tools is to first ask yourself what your goals are. What are you trying to accomplish, and how will you use the information that you glean to improve your course of action toward your goal? Data collection can become overwhelming and if [...]

LotusLive Notes features include rich email, shared calendar and instant messaging, all for $5 per user a month. LotusLive delivers email, Web conferencing, social networking and collaboration. In the latest release, there is an option to package LotusLive’s traditional service with LotusLive Notes for $10 a month. Additionally, IBM is launching a service called Communities, which provides a capability to [...]

Yammer released the first significant upgrade to its enterprise social media and microblogging platform. The Yammer 2.0 release adds a several applications to the original product, including Polls, Events and Links, and opens up the platform for developers to plug into. The new version also includes numerous enhancements, including the ability to message several colleagues directly and add others to [...]

Appcelerator is a platform to develop native desktop, mobile and iPad applications. Partnering wth FortiusOne, a location analysis software provider, they launched the first location-based analytics platform for mobile applications. Their new platform is called Titanium+Geo. It was premiered at the Location-Based Marketing Summit in New York City. The platform utilizes the core location analytics driving FortiusOne’s GeoIQ platform and [...]

Bazaarvoice, a market in hosted social commerce applications that drive sales, launched Social Commerce Insights™, a solution that allows marketers to measure social commerce ROI. Social Commerce Insights enhanes Bazaarvoice’s industry-leading analytics capabilities with pre-built integrations with leading Web analytics solutions, including Adobe® SiteCatalyst®, powered by Omniture; Coremetrics®, an IBM Company; and Google Analytics. Through Social Commerce Insights, marketers can [...]

Innovative Platform Combines Social Media Sharing, Click-Tracking and Action-Oriented Analytics to Capture and Act Upon User Behavior in Real-Time. Clickst announces services delivering 2-5x better conversion rates by using referrals and word of mouth. The unique combination of sharing tools, click tracking and web analytics enables customers to measure the efficacy of the entire viral loop across social media. “Modern [...]

Social Intelligence Corp., a provider of specialised employment screening and monitoring services, launched its Social Intelligence product line, a range of analytics and services designed to scour the expanding web of social media for insight into employment and organisational risks. The new product line features a candidate screening service called Social Intelligence Hiring and an active monitoring service called Social [...]

For most of us, analytics software behaves like idiot savants: they can surprise us with amazing feats of calculation, but totally miss the social cues that the rest of us take for granted. So, it’s no wonder that analytics packages struggle to tell us how we are doing socially. As a follow-on to his column last month on measuring social [...]