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Few things are so humbling as being unable to participate in watercooler talk - as happened to me when the topic turned to the latest wrinkle in the Enron scandal. I didn't stay out of the loop for long, though. I retrieved a quote in minutes on National Public Radio's Web site (www.npr.com), the first equipped with StreamSage's extensive search engine, which can locate not just text but digital audio or video clips in no time flat.
Part indexer (it parses media into topical segments), part query server (users search the cataloged information), StreamSage 1.0 creates a ranked list based on the keywords you input. Now you can track down talking points before heading to that dinner party.
StreamSage: www.streamsage.com.
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