It’s part of a larger movement within the spy services to get better at using ”open source intelligence” — information that’s publicly available, but often hidden in the flood of TV shows, newspaper articles, blog posts, online videos and radio reports generated every day.
Visible crawls over half a million web 2.0 sites a day, scraping more than a million posts and conversations taking place on blogs, online forums, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and Amazon. (It doesn’t touch closed social networks, like Facebook, at the moment.) Customers get customized, real-time feeds of what’s being said on these sites, based on a series of keywords,
It's important to know what the CIA is up to and this article does a good job providing that info.
The rest of the article (worth reading) offers more about what Visible does; comments from Steven Aftergood, editor of Secrecy News; and more about the investment and In-Q-Tel in general.
Source: Wired
Can you name another company that received funding from In-Q-Tel? That's right, Keyhole Corp. And of course we all know that Keyhole was acquired by Google in 2004 and became Google Earth and used with other Google Map services.
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