Market Sentinel were lucky enough to be selected to take part in the UK department of Trade’s “Digital Mission” to New York’s Web 2.0 exhibition. We will be in New York throughout the coming week 14-19th September, contactable via Crowdvine or on the normal email addresses.
Archive for September, 2008
UK PR company “bans Facebook”
September 9th, 2008 — MarkToday I interviewed a job applicant who had recently completed a stint at a well-known financial public relations company. I asked whether she had used any tools to understand online conversations. To my astonishment she said that not only was this not the case, but that the PR company in question actually banned [...]
United Airlines – old news is bad news
September 9th, 2008 — MarkWeb monitoring throws up anomalies. When is a story marked as new and date-stamped? When the page is updated? Or when it is crawled?
Since the process is totally automated errors can occur. For example when an old news item about United Airlines filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection got picked up [...]