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Last night we pushed some new features that users were VERY vociferous about wanting:

• New data in the application: Blog Comments
• Export of data: Now you can download a list of your bookmarks, or .csv or .html files of your blog results
• Custom date ranges: You can set date ranges for blog data, so that you can see results from a particular time period

New data in the application: Blog Comments

Now you can see comment mentions for blogs, the same as you can for Twitter, Photos, Videos, Blogs, etc. This is hugely helpful when the main blog post does not contain a reference to your search, for example oDesk or Motorola or Dippin’ Dots, but the comments on the post do.

Export of Data: CSV and HTML

You’ve always been able to download the source data for graphs as a .csv or a .png. This new feature enables you to get a list of links with their content in either .csv or .html format, so you can work with them offline, excerpt from them for reports, or just read them through without having to click on anything (those were the three main use cases customers told us about). After you decide to download and choose your file format, the application emails you a link where you can pick up the data. Typically this takes less than 5 minutes. The limit per export file is 1,000 results at a time, but if you really want to read all 60,000 Coke mentions for the last 6 months, you can do it in tandem with the custom date range feature.

Custom Date Ranges: Set any range within the last 6 months

We’ve been showing you data within a 24H, 1W, etc range based on today’s date. Now you can decide what date you want the date range to start or end from. So if you want to see data only from February 15 to March 15, select 1M ending on 3/15/09 and you’ll get blog mentions published within that time frame only. Choose “center” on a specific date to see all the posts around a newsworthy or other buzz generating event; for instance if you know that Web 2.0 was from March 31st to April 3rd and want to know what Jeremiah was doing around that time, center the search around April 1st and choose a date range.

There are a couple of other minor enhancements, like cooler buttons that show state and other nifty Javascript enhancements, but those are better experienced than described. Coming up we have greatly expanded Twitter data, so that you can get graphable trends back a couple months, use full Boolean search on Twitter content, use date ranges, get sentiment and see frequent words on Twitter content. We are also working on an amazing feature that uses NLP techniques to extract customer quotes from user generated content. You’ll be able to see what people love, or hate, or recommend or wish for about a product or brand or company or whatever you are searching for. It’s SO COOL, we can’t wait to show it to you! Have fun and stay tuned.