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HealthMap

An interesting new Google Maps mashup that pulls in data from a variety of open sources to display disease outbreaks.  Given the dependence on open source, this doesn’t really give you early warning, but works as a nice analysis tool. [Visit Health Map]

Predictify

Predictify realizes the dream of group intelligence for the general population, much in the way we’d like to harness it for national security and intelligence issues.  Registration is free and users can predict the outcome of a large number of events including pop culture, sports, international issues, etc.  Users can also propose questions to the Predictify userbase and even set a financial purse that will be paid out to those users that correctly predicted the response in the most timely manner.  I won $0.39 predicting that Hillary would drop out in June.  Once you’ve made a prediction, you also get to see some very basic results which are clearly insightful into which way the group is leaning.  If you sponsor a question, I’m assuming you get much more detailed response data and you can also restrict who is allowed to respond based on some simple respondent criteria. Read more

Haft of the Spear

Mike Tanji dominated the early GroupIntel Blog before deciding to secure his own brand at Haft of the Spear where he writes about all things intelligence and security related. [Visit Haft of the Spear Blog]