News Patterns is powerful in its ability to scan the Internet for any type of traditional or non-traditional news source. The power of News Patterns continues with its ability to apply Swarm Intelligence filters to find relevant articles in spite of thousands of noise articles. Even more analysis power is given with News Radar News Patterns that give insight amongst many thousands of articles over long time periods.

Another dimension of News Patterns networks is the utility of Private Social Networking amongst users, articles and patterns. News Patterns networks enable single users or users acting as part of private teams to create uniquely human insight and to effortlessly share that insight amongst their team. Functions of this social networking include:

• Automatic sharing of relevant articles and sources
• Pre-tagging of sources that have a higher group urgency
• Sharing of urgent articles
• Sharing of insight via email networking
• Sharing of threat/opportunity articles
• Sharing of comments
• Sharing of internally created articles
• Sharing of group swarm index regarding important articles
• Private sharing amongst subgroups in private networks