CIC data is a company operating in Shanghai with a really interesting business model. They use human and automated means to monitor and analyze chatter on blogs and online forums in China, and sell the intelligence gathered to corporate clients who want to know what is being said about their brands.
They are recruiting. Here is the their job ad on Danwei for vacancies in Shanghai.
今天在日志中发现了新浪IaskSpider的踪迹:
219.142.78.210 - - [10/Dec/2005:00:00:36 +0800] "GET /phpMan.php/man/crond/8/ HTTP/1.0" 200 3926 "-" "iaskspider" 219.142.78.2
10.114661134144036588
219.142.78.210 - - [10/Dec/2005:00:00:36 +0800] "GET /phpMan.php/man/cytune/8/ HTTP/1.0" 200 8639 "-" "iaskspider" 219.142.78.
210.302381134144036603
219.142.118.65 - - [10/Dec/2005:00:00:50 +0800] "GET /phpMan.php/info/pathchk/ HTTP/1.0" 200 3136 "-" "iaskspider" 219.142.118
.65.3811134144050430
219.142.78.85 - - [10/Dec/2005:00:00:58 +0800] "GET /phpMan.php/man/Config::myconfig/ HTTP/1.0" 200 1998 "-" "iaskspider" 219.
142.78.85.302351134144058586