<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/da189a82-a62a-40ca-8941-b634394b94ff/084C5DAF-E555-4252-9476-61C5C1697586/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3628988" href="http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3628988" style="font-size: 11px;">www.clickz.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3628988"><H1>J.D. Power Buys Umbria, Buzz Monitoring Firm</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3628988"><P>Umbria of Boulder, CO, offers a platform for tracking consumer sentiment on blogs, message boards, public social networks like MySpace, and other conversation-based media. It employs 40 staffers, approximately 20 of whom are focused on technology development. The rest help analyze and distill data spewed forth by its system into actionable themes and insights for clients. These are organized according to demographic profile. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3628988"><P>Umbria says its revenue quadrupled from 2006 to 2007 as the firm completed more than 70 projects for 50 companies in multiple verticals. Some of those categories, including consumer packaged goods and media & entertainment, are new to J.D. Power. Umbria's price point for individual projects starts at $25,000 to $30,000, and goes up from there depending on a client's needs, Eden-Harris said. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3628988"><P>"Consumer-generated Web commentary is becoming a prominent part of our social fabric," the statement added. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/084C5DAF-E555-4252-9476-61C5C1697586/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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