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Date: Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:59 PM<br>Subject: Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring ( 2010 Wired article )<br>To: <a href="mailto:econowmix@googlegroups.com">econowmix@googlegroups.com</a><br><br><br><div><a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/" target="_blank">http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/</a></div>
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<font size="4">Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring</font></h1><div><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
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<br></li></ul></span></font></div></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">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.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">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 “<a href="http://blog.recordedfuture.com/2010/03/13/recorded-future-%E2%80%93-a-white-paper-on-temporal-analytics/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 124, 165); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none;" target="_blank">goes beyond search</a>” by “looking at the ‘invisible links’ between documents that talk about the same, or related, entities and events.”</span></div>
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<div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><b>Recorded Future Inc.</b></span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">is a software company based in</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts" title="Cambridge, Massachusetts" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);" target="_blank">Cambridge, Massachusetts</a></span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">, United States, specializing in</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_analytics" title="Predictive analytics" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);" target="_blank">predictive analytics</a></span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">. 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</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining" title="Data mining" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);" target="_blank">extracting</a></span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">,</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_theory#Link_analysis" title="Network theory" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);" target="_blank">measuring</a></span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">, 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</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Ahlberg" title="Christopher Ahlberg" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);" target="_blank">Christopher Ahlberg</a></span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><sup style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_Future#cite_note-bweek-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup></span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">and has 16 employees as of July 2010.</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><sup style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_Future#cite_note-wired-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a></sup></span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">Both</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google" title="Google" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);" target="_blank">Google</a></span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">(on May 3, 2010)</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><sup style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_Future#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a></sup></span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">and the</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA" title="CIA" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);" target="_blank">CIA</a></span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">have invested in the company, through their investment arms,</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Ventures" title="Google Ventures" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);" target="_blank">Google Ventures</a></span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">and</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel" title="In-Q-Tel" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);" target="_blank">In-Q-Tel</a></span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">, respectively.</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><sup style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_Future#cite_note-wired-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a></sup></span><br>
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