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Website Plans to Predict the Future in Business
February 24th, 2010 by Erin Posted in Business, Small Business | No Comments »One Boston-area start-up is going where no website has gone before – to the future.
Recorded Future gives business-minded users a look at who-what-where-and-when down the road.
Sounds abstract, doesn’t it?
The concept is simple really. Recorded Future has Google-like search capabilities and a simple interface to a tightly constrained set of data: occurrences that are expected or predicted to happen tomorrow and beyond.
The site presents three input boxes – what, who/where, and when – and then aggregates results by searching across blogs, news outlets, and social media sites.
Who will use this site?
Businesses – large and small say the founders of Recorded Future.
“Recorded Future allows financial analysts, intelligence analysts, and predictors to organize and aggregate future observations with ease,” the company explains on its YouTube Channel. Recorded Future also boasts (on its LinkedIn company profile) that its customers include “top government agencies and trading firms in the world.”
The website hasn’t officially launched yet and word is the company is trying to keep a low-profile while it raises more venture capital.
Unfortunately, time (and money) will tell whether or not Recorded Future is a boon or bust. It isn’t everyday you see a business-based website that offers a look at the future. That is, one that doesn’t have a talking soothsayer on its homepage.
One final thought – a quote from Recorded Future’s website that really hits the nail on the head:
“What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.” – late British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.
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