Select your favorite content sources

Sure, it's great with thousands upon thousands of content sources aggregated into one service. But sometimes you may want to check out a single source, or a limited number, or want to compare one set of sources with another. Well, in Silobreaker you can do exactly that by setting up your own publication filters and then by bookmarking the pages enable the source-customizations to be used more than once.



















Here is how you do it:

Click on "Advanced Search Options" under the search box to expand the column. In the field under "Select Publications" start typing the name of the source you would like to use (see picture below). Once you have found the source, select it and click on the "add" button.

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Repeat the steps as explained above for each source you want to add to your list.

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When you have completed your selections, click on the "search" button.

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You're done! Any search on the page you've just created is now limited to the sources that you selected.

Now bookmark the page for future use.

Click here to go to the page in this example.

If you can't find a source, please let us know about it. Simply request a source by emailing us at feedback@silobreaker.com

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The “new” open source intelligence and Silobreaker

The Tsunami that struck South East Asia on December 26th 2004 was a wakeup call for the world in many aspects. Hurricane Katrina that struck New Orleans 8 months later was another. The crisis in Darfur is here and now.

The heartbreaking stories about human loss and torn-apart families will eventually fade. The insights about what was really working in information matters will live on in the ways how we need to interact with information, knowledge and intelligence. Governments’ slow decision cycles, below-par information management and in some cases extremely hierarchical fears makes them slow to respond. Media are a little bit faster but the proliferation of information and the global scope make the validation of what people need to find, know and understand extremely complex.

But this is the world we all live in. Instabilities such as war, terrorism, environment, crime, disease, human rights issues, political upheaval, and natural disasters are global and affect us all. There is a lot we do not know and cannot foresee, but many times the writing is on the wall somewhere in the world, if we just know how and where to look for it....

Click here to read the full article from Mats Bjore, Director of Silobreaker and former Founder and Head of the Open Source Intelligence Section at the Swedish Headquarters Military Intelligence & Security Service.

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Silobreaker "Truthiness" - Business as usual in Burma

As anti-government protestors continue to face off against riot policemen in Burma, many international oil companies seem to conduct their business as usual depsite mounting political pressure for a boycott against the Burmese regime.

The view 360 page for Myanmar/Burma in Silobreaker shows that most of the related companies to the country are oil companies. A closer look through Silobreaker's relationship network gives the following picture.




















Just to explain. In the example above, Silobreaker auto-extracts, in real-time from thousands of articles about Burma, the most related companies in the energy sector - and displays them in the relationship network. By hovering over over the midpoint of any relationship the user can easily see the articles that explain the association.

Sounds complicated? Well, the equivalent manual research effort would be more or less impossible. Silobreaker offers this insight by a couple of clicks.

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Kristofer Mansson - CEO


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Issue by issue - what was said during Ahmadinejad's visit to Columbia University.

Get more from the news by using Silobreaker's relationship networks.

The screenshot below shows the 20 most related keyphrases from the news around Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Columbia University.

The user can simply hover with the mouse over the midpoint of any relationship to see the articles that explain the association and get an issue-by-issue breakdown of the news.

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The relationships or associations that Silobreaker extracts and visualizes are not pre-determined or manually configured in any way. Silobreaker deduces relationships between terms or entities statistically by computing several measurements, such as co-occurrences, text-proximity, spelling variations etc in the information flow. This enables Silobreaker to offer more insightful search results than just traditional lists of headlines (often too many) by showing people, companies, places, keyphrases, etc that are related or associated with the search results. This in turn enables the user to move away from linear analysis to multi-dimensional exploration and discovery.

Get a 360 degree view of today's stories

Silobreaker offers more insight faster by aggregating news, blogs, research, audio, video and other digital media content from proprietary, shared, user generated and open access sources around the world.

Take a look at our 360-degree search results for some of today's news events.

US

How is Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad doing in New York? Click here




What's the latest in the race for the White House? Click here




Strike is in the air - UAW and GM talks break down Click here


UK
Latest development in the Madeleine McCann disappearance Click here




Gordon Brown at the Labour Party conference Click here





Bluetongue Disease - another disaster for British farmers Click here


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Silobreaker "Truthiness" - Iran/Military Action

The arrival of Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in New York and the controversy (amongst other things) surrounding his wish to visit Ground Zero and give a speech at Columbia University are covered intensely by media and political commentators around the world. And although it feels like Iran and the US have been at each other's throats for as long as anyone can remember, a simple look in Silobreaker reveals that the topic of a potential military attack of Iran is currently getting more press coverage than possibly ever before.

Putting his New York visit in that context, one interpretation might be that while the US is stepping up its preparations for a possible invasion, Ahmadinejad goes behind enemy lines to launch a PR "blitzkrieg" in order to gain a first mover's advantage. Fascinating tactics if the whole situation wasn't so scary!

The chart shows the number of daily articles about Iran in the last four months filtered on the topic of "Military Action". Source: Silobreaker

Click here to see the full page in Silobreaker. You need to log in to be able to go back four months (only the last 30 days if you don't log in). Registration is free - click on Login/Register button at the top of a page.

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Silobreaker in Sky News show

We know it's been quiet from us on the blog-front lately but watch this space as we will be providing "truthiness" reports and announcing a bunch of new features in the coming weeks and months.

Btw, followers of Silobreaker might have seen that we popped up in a press release from Sky News, who announced last week that Silobreaker will be one of two aggregators that the award-winning UK news channel will be using in a new show looking at the most popular stories, videos and debates on the web. The show, to be hosted by Martin Stanford, will air on Sky News TV channel on Tuesdays to Fridays at 7:30pm (UK time) as well as being streamed on the Sky News website.

Click here for Sky News press release

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