Tech Review General: Wednesday, April 11, 2012

http://www.dataminr.com/

• Data Mining

http://gcn.com/articles/2012/04/10/twitter-analytics-predicting-the-future-bin-laden.aspx?s=gcndaily_110412

• predicted death of Osama bin Laden 4 hours before President announced.
• scans Twitter universe for connecting threads and pieces them together to form a predictive picture.