This is an interesting approach. I’ll be curious to see how they make this work. Talk about signal to noise ratios….(AFP)
An interesting scenario developed on my drive home, that is a perfect demonstration of emerging technology. First, I read a Twitter message (while stopped at a red light!) that there was major Steve Jobs news and AAPL stock was tanking. I then saw a Twitter message from Leo Laporte that he was covering it live. [...]
Going to be thinking about this one going into the new year. There is no such thing as information overload, there’s only filter failure. – Clay Shirkey A little out of context, but still appropriate for 2009.
Yesterday was my last day of employment at the Terrorism Research Center/TIS. As an original co-founder of TRC in 1996 and it’s only active President and CEO, I was able to grow the company beyond any of the expectations we originally had. It has been a fun and tremendously rewarding experiencing that will serve as [...]
Just posted over at the GroupIntel Blog. (Link)
I’ve got a blog post up on GroupIntel that discusses some of the sources that I was impressed with during the Mumbai attacks. Check it our here -> Social Media Intel Links
with regards to the significance of social media and web 2.0 for tracking a real-world crisis. As Mike Arrington correctly points out the most up-to-date and accurate information about today’s terror attacks in India came from Twitter, Flickr, and other social media sites. Also for the first time today, the site www.homelandsecurity.com linked not to [...]
I had a follow-on call from the President’s office at T-mobile today. They sorted out a way to get us G1 phones to try on our business account. They are shipping them at a discounted rate, and sending a few extra sim cards (as I lost mine) for free. Representative was very professional and customer [...]
Rackspace today announced a series of cloud computing initiatives including storage (in competition with Amazon S3). Great news. Competition is good. They also announced they acquired Jungledisk, which is the tool I use to access my S3 account. Having Jungledisk support Rackspace cloud will be nice, but I hope they don’t eliminate or diminish the [...]
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