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Welcome to the Monday Morning News Kick Off post from got geoint? As always, we hope you had a restful weekend. We can honestly say that this week’s MMNKO post offers a completely mixed bag of stories that cover a wide-range of topics. From news about new geotagging software for hunting terrorists to an update regarding the outcome of the National Geographic Bee, this post will make you smarter, more productive and more enlightened. Well, at least it will make you see that the GEOINT world is truly diverse. So, fire up that second cup of coffee and read on. Happy Monday!

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It’s not often that you see a familiar face staring back at you on the television screen. So, we were very excited to see Jeff Jonas, USGIF board member featured in the IBM “Why Data Matters” national advertisement. Mr. Jonas is chief scientist of the IBM Entity Analytics group and is a highly regarded member of the GEOINT community — so much so, he was featured in a national TV commercial! Very exciting. Check out the actual video in this post.

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We came across a most interesting blog post by GEOINT 2009 speaker Jeff Jonas, the IBM Distinguished Engineer and Chief Scientist, Entity Analytic Solutions, about how mobile devices in America generate an average of 600 billion geo-spatially tagged transactions per day. And, this data is being provided to third parties by cell providers that are leveraging specially designed analytics to make sense of space-time-travel data. Sounds pretty cool, huh? Want to learn more about how this data, combined with advanced analytics, provides major predictors for consumer behavior and will ultimately mean a more efficient enterprise and cutting-edge consumer services that will change the way we live? Click here. It will be one of the more enlightening reads you have had in a long time!

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