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 […]

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 […]

(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 […]

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 […]

I’m doing a fair bit of research into location intelligence, geo-coding of data, and data visualization for AWhere these days, and found out that Quantcast (competitor of Alexa and comScore) is now including location-based info in their reports.
From their announcement:
We believe geographic and business/organizational data will be a powerful characterization of publishers’ audiences, especially as […]

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 […]