The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Robert Steele on Open Source Intelligence in 2013 Beyond Search, April 4, 2013 Robert Steele has been a prescient thinker and actor in the intelligence sector for decades. In 1979 he was competitively selected to join the Central Intelligence Agency’s clandestine service. He spent nine years with the CIA, doing three tours overseas as a …
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Which Vendor Will Be the Next Autonomy and Endeca? At a recent search conference, I sat in the audience and marveled at the disconnect between the past that was and the present which is unfolding now. Several speakers dismissed the notions of precision and recall. In their place, the search wizards (who shall remain nameless) …
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SOCIAL MEDIA Social media looks like a free and easy way to jump start sluggish sales or generate qualified new leads. That’s probably why so many companies adopt the Nike slogan and “Just Do It.” But random acts of social media can be expensive, wasteful and are usually ineffective. The typical impact of a weekly …
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Social Media Services Announced The Honk a Limited Distribution Newsletter Social media has been on our radar for years. However, in the last three months, a number of clients and people struggling with social media “challenges” have enlisted our help. Our engagements have ranged from analyses of the vulnerabilities of the screening methods in use …
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Rosoka An Interview with Mike Sorah EXTRACT: Can you give me an example? Yes, one of our clients uses Cassandra Hadoop as the organization’s search engine. It took them less than 30 minutes to integrate Rosoka and make all of the names, organizations, and their relationships directly searchable. Before that they would have had to …
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Visual Analytics An Interview with Christopher Westphal Visual Analytics provides an analytical solution called Data Clarity® which can be implemented quickly and tailored to the needs of specific investigation teams within an organization. The system federates information from a variety of sources, and it provides a point-and-click solution which gets users up and running …
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EXTRACT from today’s HONG (email only, not online or indexed by intent): The big news is the emergence of open source search options. Until recently, open source search was not main stream. Today, open source search solutions are main stream. IBM relies on Lucene/Solr for some of its search functions. IBM also owns Web Fountain, …
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