We capture the natural "swarm intelligence" of thousands of news articles between content creators.
In nature, it is swarm intelligence that enables bee colonies to combine the individual knowledge of bees into a greater hive intelligence.
We discover hidden patterns, trends & context in the news with powerful algorithms.
The patterns we discover are based on natural archetypes of competition. Once our users understand the competitive patterns around them, they will make better decisions and be more responsive to emerging threats and opportunities.
Our patterns create a real-time situational awareness and superior anticipation of the future.
We enable our client's Twitter and Google Alert feeds to be patterned in our network.
We enable clients to start patterning immediately with existing collections of news topics.
We empower communities of Smart News Folders and their users/creators to discover and share competitive patterns in the news, where news can include almost any digital media.
Our True News Alerts packages news you need to know with relevant context, trending and measures of urgency.
Our Smart News Folders are a simple mode of getting news discoveries, and trends - just as a user would subscribe to on-line music or photography.
Our animated News Radars transform News Folders into animated trending, patterning and discovery interfaces.
Our services are offered on-line without the need of our clients to download any software. Desk-top and mobile devices can play news patterns.
- News Patterns is a complete, continuous and near-real time news discovery process
- Our focus is on competitive patterns that drive business, finance, political and societal decision making
- News, in all its forms are collected by our network or added by our clients
- Twitter feeds are collected and patterned in real-time
- Client Google Alerts can be patterned and animated in our network
- Smart News Folders filter and organize news topics into meaningful collections, industries and competitive ecosystems
- Patterning algorithms transform news topics into relevancy, trends, patterns, context and True News Alerts
- Animated visual displays give users the dual benefit of searching and discovery; articles in context with important trends
- Alerts start with a general sense of the urgency of the news (see What is a News Trend Overview?)
- Alerts can be gateways to News Radar animated interfaces that provide a wide scope of news context and patterns for relevant news discovery.
- Trends and patterns are summarized for daily, weekly and monthly time periods.
- Simple overviews of most relevant or interesting market or political trends.
- Analysts can tag articles for user review.
- Analysts can add high level pattern analysis.
- Patterning algorithms select interesting articles to read.
- There is a Swarm Intelligence among the thousands of news content creators and the news (including blogs, Tweets and other social media) that they create.
- In nature, it is swarm intelligence that enables bee colonies to combine the individual knowledge of bees into a greater hive intelligence.
- Continuous calculations based on competitive pattern archetypes seek useful patterns and relationships among the thousands of articles that are related to each other.
- News folders collect articles and these articles define topics at any point in time.
- Over time, articles change, causing new calculations and relationships.
- News folders that share similar ideas, pull closer to each other.
- News folders that are dissimilar, repel each other.
- Competitive patterns are revealed by the ever changing relationships of news topics among each other.
Our Trend Overview graphic, is a scale that measures the general "calmness" or "dynamism" of a news sector in a competitive landscape. Measures that are toward "Calm" indicate that there are few news patterns that foretell important or fundamental changes in the competitive relationships. Measures that are toward the "Dynamic" measure foretell that there are emerging news patterns that could change the basic nature of the competitive environment.
Every competitive marketplace or political environment is driven by the tensions and conflicts among the participants. Some participants strive for supremacy. Some for simple acceptance or recognition. While others for survival. A News Radar is a model of these tensions and conflicts. It moves and changes every day based on ever changing news signals. Some days, there is little news that indicates a changing competitive environment. While other days the patterns indicate dynamic shifts in the competitive landscape. Examples of dynamic shifts include these patterns:
- a change in the fundamental nature of the competition
- new or emerging competitors, technologies or issues
- new consumer or voter associations with products or candidates
- new connections among suppliers, candidates, voters, products and issues
By using the Daily News Trend Overview, a recipient of a True News alert will have an immediate urgency measure of the events unfolding in his/her competitive environment.
The Industry Building Blocks (IBB) database uses the Industry Building Blocks Classification System ™ provides over 12,000 industry analyses at the line-of-business level, the arena where head-to-head competition takes place.
The IBB framework used for each industry includes information on:
- Competitors
- Potential Entrants
- Customers
- Vendors
- Substitutes
- Complements
- Product & Services
- Industry Trends
News Pattern clients can access IBB industry information to fast-track the creation of their private News Patterns networks.
- A ten year history of networking & enabling news discoveries for major corporations and political campaigns.
- News Patterns are designed for professionals who need to anticipate the future: business marketing, analysis and strategy, financial decision making, political strategy and communications, company communications, sales prospecting, and news organizations.
- Continuous worldwide news signal acquisition, patterning and client access.
- We actively serve and support worldwide, Fortune 50 clients, enabling them to create their own news insight networks.
- We support free patterning networks where members can create their own patterns on top of their news.
- Every competitive marketplace or political environment is driven by the tensions and conflicts among the participants. A News Radar is a model of these tensions and conflicts. It moves and changes every day based on ever changing news signals.
- News patterns and trends are visualized, thereby enabling user discoveries that cannot be efficiently be described by words alone.
- Trends and patterns are additionally animated, thereby reinforcing the importance of changes over time.
- Many analysis layers can be individually enabled by users.
- Summaries of patterns are captured in daily/weekly True News Alerts.
- Radars are continually updated over the course of a day.
- Radars can embed tens of thousands of patterning articles with instant access to those articles.
Access:
- Simple links from News Patterns
- Use HTML 5 compatible browser
- App is in constant connection with larger News Radars and patterning algorithms
- Speed, intensity and connections of animation reflect competitive patterns
- Topic animations reflect their patterns in larger News Radars
- Top articles & patterns defined by competitive topic
- Date range of selected patterns and articles
- Articles sorted by importance (urgency) of source
- Option - articles further sorted by trusted community members
- Click through to publishing sources
- Share articles via email
- Search Google for similar articles
- Option - article competitive threat/opportunity assessment
- Top articles & patterns defined by many topics composing a larger News Radar
- Similar functionality as selected topic above
- Navigate to other radar topic folders in competitive ecosystem
- Animation changes to reflect competitive patterns of new topic
- Topic are sorted from most central to most peripheral in regard to competitive pattern relevancy
News Patterns users and subscribers seek better ways of surviving in their competitive environments. News intake is a daily ritual of this competitive process. News Patterns supercharges the news intake process by enabling its users to view their news through the lens of fundamental rules of competition. These rules can apply to business, finance, politics or societal developments. We call these rules archetypes.
For example in business, Michael Porter of the Harvard Business School, has described the fundamental interactions among Competitors, Suppliers, Buyers, Market Entrants and Substitutes as competitive archetypes. Similar interacting forces can define politics, elections, financial markets and societies. Through the News Patterns lens of competition, our users discover surprising trends that might not be predicted, yet trends that might be anticipated if one were to analyze all the possible combinations among participants in a competitive environment. News Patterns algorithms collect and process countless individual news signals as part of discovering underlying patterns that might be emerging before it is obvious.
- A model used as an archetype of future business, market, political or societal trends composed from the many forms of digital news collected, analyzed and correlated over time.
- A model used as an archetype of real-time business, market, political or societal situational awareness composed from the many forms of digital news collected, analyzed and correlated over time.
- A model or original used as an archetype.
- A person or thing considered worthy of imitation.
- Information about recent events or happenings, especially as reported by newspapers, periodicals, radio, or television.
- New information of any kind
- a change in the fundamental nature of market or political relationships
- new or emerging competitors, technologies or issues
- new consumer or voter associations with products or candidates
- new connections among suppliers, candidates, voters, products and issues
- associations of new regulations with products or markets
- product market shares
- election polling
- the discovery of important news for which one did not think to search
- Displacement of smart-phone leader with new mobile OS
- Food prices as an early warning against ethanol as primary biofuel
- Loss of email app connection as a warning for phone market leader
- Winning the 2012 election battle with Economy yet losing the war
- World early warning of unrest as part of any entitlement reform
- Rise of remote apps as a partial solution for healthcare reform
- Stalling of tablet substitutes as credible challengers to the Apple iPad
- Discovery of a client that one of its suppliers was now a competitor
- Use existing filters to remove irrelevant news
- Instantly create your own filters
- Connect filters
- Share filters
- High speed graphical interfaces
- User driven selection of news and analysis
- Traditional text based interfaces
- Continuous updates
- Article activity charts & plots
- Browser & RSS sharing
- Email alerting - including smart phones
- Continuous collection
- Automatic collection
- Thousands of articles per day can be collected
- Traditional sources
- Blog/Message sources
- email alerting inputs
- Social media sources
- Audio/video sources
- Private client sources
- Article counts over time
- Archive searching
- Trend discovery & tracking
- Market buzz
- Negative/positive tagging
- New language discovery
- Private client analysis
