Looking forward to the upcoming release of Techrigy/SM2 4.4 next week – I often use Techrigy and find their tool has some unique features with tone/sentiment/emotion that are very interesting to look at and data mine.

Here’s an announcement of what’s in the upgraded Techrigy/SM2- and it’s always interesting to note how the bar keeps getting higher and higher on what these monitoring packages are expected to provide.

I will definitely check out the improved sentiment analysis and location detection – I’ve tested it before and written about it – expect to see a post from me about the new Techrigy SM2 features and improvements within the next 2 weeks.

Alterian is pleased to announce that SM2 4.4 is scheduled for release on Monday February 1, 2010.

Improved search mechanism:

• Default search has been changed to run every 4 hours
• Email alert sent hourly, configured with search update interval

Improved search results analysis:

• Improved location & location detection
• Improved sentiment analysis
• Improved author & age detection

Improved content coverage:

• Improved Facebook fan and group coverage
• Improved Asian/European content coverage
• Improved RSS feed coverage
• Increased content collector coverage – 50% more daily content than before

Added functionality:

• Improved filtering

Look & feel:

• New layout for Alerts/Schedules screens

Performance:

• Optimized Google/Facebook/Boardreader searches
• Improved reliability of customer engines
• Improved database performance – updated indices, added compression
• Improved engine/collector memory usage
• Improved customer engine performance (up to 30% faster)