Well, it took me a while.  I came off my game for almost two weeks.
But on a drive home from an inspiring meeting with Kevin (Johansen, my Business Catapult business partner and long time co-consipirator), I fully and completely transcended (and included, as the integral school teaches) the financial crisis.  That is to say, the […]

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 […]

Can you concentrate?  I’ve been having a rough time this week.
I have promised myself to leave politics out of this blog, but it’s not out of my mind.
And the economic debacle … I’m hardly consoled with the “I told you so” feeling that has been driving me nuts.  Since there were only one or two […]

At Business Catapult, we’re powering the Angel Capital Summit.
As I wrote at the Business Catapult Blog,
As supporting partners, Business Catapult provides our entire suite of tools, and provide many new features to what would otherwise be a typical investor fair.  For instance:

Investors can review deals prior to the conference, and participate in a collective intelligence […]

As part of our work in building a unique community that focuses on intelligent matching of entrepreneurs and investors, we have launched the Business Catapult blog.
Focused on the education of angel investors, and to a lesser extent, the provocation of venture capitalists, we break the blog down into three channels:

101: Investing Basics, including valuations, investment […]

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 […]

It’s a never-ending sport.  With some drastic implications.
There’s ample evidence that the social networks are nothing more that the dot.com bubble revisited.  At the same time, big time players are putting heavy bets down that there’s a pot of gold out there somewhere.  So what are social networks really worth?
MIT’s Technology Review, in my opinion, […]

Set aside for a moment the vagueness of “green,” and let’s ask a different question.  In an era where travel is being replaced by virtual conferencing, shopping by eCommerce, and partying by Second Life, what is the carbon cost of all of our time online?
I wrote a piece over at eCo Times which ran last […]

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 […]

I know this is a bit off the beat (or is it?), but I couldn’t resist.  What these guys can do with computers is pretty damn cool.   IBM announced they have a new computer that can consistently perform petaflops.
From senior IBM genius Irving Wladawsky Berger’s […]