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IBM Announces "Blog-Spotting" Software

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday November 9, 2005 @05:54AM from the keeping-tabs-on-public-opinion dept.

notesdude writes to tell us InternetNews is reporting that IBM has announced new "Blog-Spotting" software that will allow the monitoring of blogs, wikis, news feeds, consumer review sites, newsgroups, and other community-generated content. From the article: "People can share and spread opinions faster than ever before and that's accelerated the impact of public opinion on businesses"

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Oh joy.... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-11-09 05:59 · Score: 5, Insightful

If you can spot it, you can spam it.

i.e Ikea uses Blogspotter (or it's open-source alternative Spogblotter), finds any blog that mentions Ikea, and likkity-split everyone who visits these blogs can read about the best deals on ottoman's "only at Ikea SATURDAY SATURDAY SATURDAY".