Neal Rauhauser: Steele on NATO, AIPAC Replaces US IC — Steele Comments

Some months ago I had the great pleasure of adding OSINT godfather Robert David Steele as a LinkedIn contact. We’ve progressed from that to occasional phone calls and regular emails, pointing out interesting technology and events to each other. NATO 4.0: Key Challenges AND Solutions was published with this short note, asking for broad consideration …

Marcus Aurelius: IBM Tries Something New – The Gist Mill

Worth a look. The Gist Mill – Strategic Social Media Analysis The ability to rapidly ingest, identify, monitor and exploit relationships, trends and collective thought evolving out of Internet-based social networks will be the most critical analytic capability requirement of the next decade.  The fact that these networks exist in plain sight, are vastly dense, …

Berto Jongman: MIT App Replicates NSA Handling of Your Meta-Data — Silver Lining

MIT tool connects the dots of your life through Gmail metadata How much does the metadata gathered in your inbox reveal about you? Quite a lot, judging by what researchers at the MIT Media Lab have managed to accomplish with Immersion. They’ve built a web app that — once you grant it permission to do so …

DefDog: Cost-Price of Smart Phones Diving + AltC2 OpenBTS RECAP

Smartphone Makers Hit By Rising Competition Samsung gives weaker-than-expected earnings guidance and HTC posts tepid results EXTRACT: “The mid and entry-level smartphones are quickly picking up share, and are getting quite powerful in their capabilities,” said CK Lu, an analyst at Gartner in Taiwan. “Basically, a year ago, you didn’t have many choices in low-end …

Berto Jongman: Map of the Social Web (As Of Today)

Phi Beta Iota:  Well worth careful examination.  A useful categorization of many services, all of which have something to do with sharing, and none of which actually contribute to sense-making, decision-support, or true cost accountability.  Now imagine this same map, but this time every single element is part of a world brain and global game …