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FBI considering new tools to search social media

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Based on our knowledge of the Bureau’s investigative capability, we’re guessing this is not about giving the Bureau a capability it doesn’t already have. We suspect it’s a drinking-from-a-firehose problem: if they can’t automate some of these functions, they won’t be able to keep up. From PCMag’s FBI Looking for a Good Facebook-Snooping App:

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking for a better way to spy on Facebook and Twitter users. That’s pretty much the gist of a new FedBizOpps.gov post from the FBI’s Strategic Information and Operations Center (SIOC) soliciting proposals for an app capable of sniffing through online media sites and social networks.  Read more »

 

WikiMindMap.org – a different way to use Wikipedia

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WikiMindMap.org – a different way to use Wikipedia , by looking at relationships between ideas – and it might be used to speed things up – by searching with your primary search term – and seeing what lies several degrees of separation away, rather than hopping one step at a time.

WikiMindMap.org was developed by Felix Nyffenegger of Nova Innovation Solutions.

 

DataMiningTools.net: mining tools, data, and how to use them

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DataMiningTools.net – which provides information about an abundance of data mining tools, and some interesting datasets to learn on, seems an outstanding site. If I understand their business model 1 they’re about consultation and training, and are agnostic on the commercial vs. FOSS question, providing information about both. Their blog is worth a serious look; here are links to their lists of tools, and to their list of datasets.

More on the folks at DataMiningTools.net – as we start to figure it out.

Via InfoChimps.

 
  1. Even odds, of course, that I don’t understand it at all. [↩]