---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:59 PM Subject: Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring ( 2010 Wired article ) To: [email protected] http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_Future http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_analytics https://www.recordedfuture.com/ Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring - July 28, 2010 - The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come. In a white paper, the company says its temporal analytics engine “goes beyond search<http://blog.recordedfuture.com/2010/03/13/recorded-future-%E2%80%93-a-white-paper-on-temporal-analytics/>” by “looking at the ‘invisible links’ between documents that talk about the same, or related, entities and events.” - By Noah Shachtman<http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/author/noah_shachtman/> [image: Email Author] <[email protected]> - <http://www.twitter.com/dangerroom> - - - Categories: Spies, Secrecy and Surveillance<http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/category/spies-secrecy-and-surveillance/> - - /// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_Future *Recorded Future Inc.* is a software company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts>, United States, specializing in predictive analytics<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_analytics>. Using what they call a "temporal analytics engine", Recorded Future provides forecasting tool to help analysts predict future events by scanning sources on the Internet, and extracting <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining>, measuring <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_theory#Link_analysis>, and visualizing the information to show networks and patterns in the past, present, and future. The software analyzes sources and forms "invisible links" between documents to find links that tie them together and may possibly indicate the entities and events involved. The company was founded in 2008 by Christopher Ahlberg<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Ahlberg> [1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_Future#cite_note-bweek-0> and has 16 employees as of July 2010.[2]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_Future#cite_note-wired-1> Both Google <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google> (on May 3, 2010)[3]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_Future#cite_note-2> and the CIA <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA> have invested in the company, through their investment arms,Google Ventures<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Ventures> and In-Q-Tel <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel>, respectively.[2]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_Future#cite_note-wired-1> -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens