I wrote this yesterday at the AWhere Blog: Geo-Analytics Transforms CA Politics.  It’s a story told in ever-increasing zoom about how the Proposition 8 opponents Google Mapped the pro-Prop8 donors.  An interesting and intense demonstration of how location intelligence and mapping creates actionable insight.

Final Screen Shot: Street View, Anyone?

We’ve been talking about location intelligence and geo-analytics for a while now, both here and at the AWhere blog.  As the economy shifts into epochal distress, every point of leverage much be engaged to create or maintain a competitive advantage.  The other choice is the drama felt by every company gracing the front page of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Inventing a new market category to go with your new business is exhausting and time consuming. This I have learned from experience. Painful experience.
So, when I sit down to talk through messaging and the slow pace of marketplace adoption with John Corbett of AWhere, he can end up a bit exacerbated, which I [...]

Ah, AWhere. If you read this regularly (and who isn’t?), you are going to hear a lot about AWhere. But those posts will be talking at some level about what AWhere does, or some cool new application. Let this serve as the ‘what’ post, which I’ll reference time and again.
AWhere is a [...]