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Sindya Bhanoo, The Industry Standard, 12.02.2008

The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant to Jodange to improve tools that mine online content such as blogs, wikis and RSS feeds to judge public opinion. The company will research statistical modeling methods to improve the tools.

Jodange already creates opinion tools, so the project is a natural extension of the company's work.

"The ability to accurately and consistently correlate opinion holders� opinions...will be an exciting technology breakthrough," said Larry Levy, CEO of Jodange in an official press release.

The National Science Foundation has an annual budget of more than six billion dollars to fund research and education in science and engineering. Jodange was awarded $100,000 for the project.

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