This podcast features Atif Khan, Founder and CEO of Deeda.com. Khan speaks extensively on setbacks he has faced and successes he has celebrated in the process of starting his company Deeda.com. Deeda is a social networking aggregation tool. Basically, once your friends approve, Deeda will compile their Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and other profiles onto one convenient portal. You can see when and what they are doing or saying without flipping between sites. The geospatial advantage to Deeda - based on their postings to social network sites, you can track your friends on a map. Pretend “Bob” lives in Detroit but is at a conference in Miami. Deeda will show Bob’s movement across the country and beyond. What’s better than that, pretend Bob has a birthday while he’s in Miami and you want to send him a little something. You can buy him a Starbucks coffee card through Deeda and he can redeem it in Miami, back in Detroit or wherever he chooses – the card travels with him. Khan’s creativity and drive while building his company and during this presentation is infectious and well worth your time. [Produced by: Clay Burton Productions and Endpoint Environmental LLC, Producers of the Web 2.0 Mapping and Social Networks Meetup Group in conjunction with Directions Media.]
The presentation was recorded at Google headquarters on December 16, 2008, and lasts for approximately 37 minutes.
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by Joe Francica on 02/03 at 06:29 AM |
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VentureBeat notes that Space-Time Insight (STI) has just received first round funding for its data modeling/visualization business. The company’s technology pinpoint data anomolies (power outages, weather events and the like) and helps visualize them on satellite imagery (not sure why that necessarily better than vector data, but it’s clearly an important distinguisher for the company). The tools can do predictive modeling and recommend response actions. It may sound a bit fuzzy, but several big companies are already clients: Entergy, Sempra Energy and non-profit grid operator California ISO, Johnson & Johnson and medical vendor Novartis. The last two are interested in it to manage supply chain issues.
VentureBeat is high on the company but expect rivals to appear: “For now, there is no major competitor in the space, but geographic data visualization is picking up steam and could produce a rival soon, especially as more renewable electricity systems are built with advanced monitoring functionality in mind.”
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/03 at 06:00 AM |
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Open source is in the news again. This past week the US Dept. of Defence announced Forge.mil, an open source project repository akin to SourceForge. Last month President Obama tapped Sun co-founder Scott McNealy to prepare a document on open source and its potential role in government. But what of open source GIS? How is that corner of geospatial being funded and groomed for growth? We’ll look at three paths that have lead to open source growth and their likelihood for success in the coming months and years.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 02/03 at 01:00 AM |
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