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Project Name: Social Network map alert mash-up application

Project Type: Social Media Application

Project Scope: Social media has become a primary source of intelligence because it has become the premier first response to key events and the primal alert to possible developing situations.

Project Requirements:

• The application should collect “open source” information.
• Provide an automated search and scrape capability of social networks including Facebook and Twitter.
• Allow users to create new keyword searches.
• Display different levels of threats as alerts on maps, possibly using colour coding to distinguish priority. Google Maps 3D and Yahoo Maps are listed among the “preferred” mapping options.
• Plot a wide range of domestic and global terror data.
• Immediately translate foreign language tweets into English.

Project Owner: FBI

Are you up for the challenge? Please note next time you write something on Facebook, Twitter, or any other social platform BEWARE, the FBI might be scraping what you’re writing!

Android vs Windows vs iOS

Analyst house Ovum released results from its annual developer survey this week, which suggests that Android could become the most important operating system to developers this year, overtaking iOS’s dominance.

The study also noted the growing support behind the Blackberry and Windows Phone platforms, which could see the mobile market become even more competitive, as developers explore opportunities across all systems.

In more bad news for Apple, a study by IHS iSuppli last week concluded that Windows Phone could overtake iOS in terms of market share by 2015, thanks in part to Microsoft’s deal with Nokia.

Do you think this speculation is way off the mark?