http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/web2.0/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=215801627 By J. Nicholas Hoover InformationWeek March 10, 2009 While the United States intelligence community may have gotten a lot of publicity for its Wikipedia-like Intellipedia Web site, agencies like the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency are ramping up their use of other social and Web-inspired software as well. Intellipedia has been a success -- with 830,000 pages, it's the crown jewel of the intelligence community's proof that information sharing is better in the wake of the 9/11 attacks -- but Michael Kennedy, director of enterprise solutions for the intelligence community, said the government can't rest on its laurels. He admits criticism that Intellipedia has matured, and while it remains a centerpiece, he said the government also needs to keep moving onto the next big thing. "We don't know what the next great tool is going to be for the users," he said during a panel discussion Tuesday at the FOSE conference in Washington, D.C. "We just know there will be one very soon, and we want to be there, whatever it is." For example, intelligence agency employees now exchange about 5 million daily instant messages via Jabber and IBM (NYSE: IBM) Sametime. A search engine based on Google technologies has indexed 92 million documents and handles 2 million queries every month. A new site allows employees to share and analyze photos and videos of events like a test last year that destroyed a failing satellite with a missile. [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books and More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/Received on Wed Mar 11 2009 - 23:28:51 PDT
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