trees are people too

in other news, Seer looks like quite a cool and interesting tool.

I ain’t no scientist, and tbh I couldn’t give an arse about marketing tactics, but this sounds kind of like a visual technorati (admittedly with slightly more sinister ambitions). By using a visual depiction of blogs, boards and websites, you can identify which ones are the most influential on the web.

They put it a little bit more succinctly:

‘SEER is a software-based marketing intelligence tool for finding and visualizing live networks—web-based or closed—in real time. It aggregates activity from web sites, news groups, bulletin boards and blogs to identify how information spreads and influences brand behavior within a particular ecosystem or network.’

No doubt we will see more and more of this as companies try and harness the business potential of the web. We’ll all be data-mined to death.