I couldn’t be more excited about getting to work with AWhere on helping design a collective intelligence engine for the UN Foundation.
Here’s a recent two-part intervew I did at the AWhere Blog with UNF change agent Kevin Starace.  In his words:
As chair of the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Performance Subcommittee we’re mandated to help the […]

It’s been a great summer over at AWhere, where breakthroughs in geo-analysis, location intelligence and busines map mashups have come one right after another.

CPG Vision lets category managers at consumer package goods companies visualize the entirety of their Retail Link data from WalMart, and correlate it with demographic data from Neilsen as well as weather […]

Theodore Geisel is one of the most influential post-war American writers.
He is the nuance…
Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You’re off to Great Places!
You’re off and away!

Getty Images, “the man” of the photo world, just launched a service called Moodstream.
Basically, it creates a slideshow of their images based on your input across five ranges of moods.  Complete with music, it provides something that might be nice background at parties, or could double as a screen-saver replacement.
I got the tip on this […]

News junkies, commodity traders and climate change scientists are all tracking last week’s midwest flooding, noting the confluence of impacts, including global commodity prices, US food costs, regional property damage, ethanol futures.  All of this is, of course, written in the context of the upcoming US election, and all the subterfuge within.
Over at AWhere (more […]

Please take a second to review our revised clients page.  We’ve reorganized it, added some exciting new projects, and updated the descriptions of some of our partnerships, which have evolved in recent months.
Let us know how we can help you connect to these interesting opportunities.

(note: here’s a version of a piece I ran over at AWhere’s new blog. Check it out for good info on 2008’s biggest trend in business intelligence (BI).)
TechWeb published the Executive Summary of Ventana Research’s new benchmark survey on the impact of location and geo-analytics on business intelligence practices in the enterprise, calling it […]

Although we’re not known to report on every SEC filing in the known universe, the recent news that Digital Global filed for an IPO (the first in many steps before they go public) is interesting on a couple levels:

It’s been a while since a Colorado technology company went public, so this is another indicator of […]

John Corbett turned me on to a good article at Tech Target about business-focused, web-based, location-aware data mashups, which the author terms ‘bashups.’ Here’s the nut:
BI systems are already very good at sifting through (and/or aggregating) huge volumes of data and turning it into information. If we combine this with mapping, we can get […]

Bill Gail, a new acquaintance who runs strategy for Microsoft’s Virtual Earth, is also the editor of the Geoscience Remote Sensing Society’s Private Sector Newsletter. He ran a great piece in this month’s issue, which I’ve excerpted here:
** 4. ACCURATE DATA VS USEFUL DATA – why accuracy is not always best
As scientists and […]