Voyurl uses dynamic charts to show what you're doing on the Web via a plug-in, matches your behavior with others and serves up related content. Gaining user trust, panelists say, will be Voyurl's biggest challenge.

While social analytics startups have a good outlook, their future is far from certain. "It's such a crowded market," says David Gutelius, chief social scientist at Jive Software.

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