Andre Parris is the global manager for energy and commodity trading at Bloomberg, the financial news publishing conglomerate. Mr. Parris is responsible for developing the BMAP application, a business and location intelligence dashboard that displays a plethora of location-based information related to energy commodities. In this interview with Directions Media’s editor in chief, Joe Francica, Mr. Parris explains how the application was developed and the types of analyses that can be performed by commodity traders to get the latest, real-time information about various factors that might impact commodity prices from around the world. You can listen to the audio interview and view a brief demo of the application below. Listen Now (to download, right click on the link at left and choose "save target as")
In this interview with the Chair-Elect of the Coalition of Geospatial Organizations,COGO, Ms. Geney Terry speaks about how the organization can effect better communication among its members and what that might produce in being better advocates for the broader geospatial community. Editor in Chief, Joe Francica, spoke with Ms. Terry about COGO’s current initiatives and what her objectives are in helping to facilitate COGO’s "voice" in legislative issues before Congress and broadening the organization’s outreach in education and professional development. Listen Now (to download, right click on the link at left and choose "save target as")
Last week, CTIA, the Wireless Association, held their spring conference and issued an updated statement of Best Practices and Guidelines for Location Based Services. Why? According to CTIA, "the guidelines were revised due to the dynamic and constantly innovative nature of the wireless ecosystem and the latest developments in Location-Based Services." Certainly the understatement of the year. In this podcast, we’ll discuss the details and whether they will actually work in practice. Listen Now (to download, right click on the link at left and choose "save target as")
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If anyone can provide a perspective on the "consumerization" of satellite imaging and its impact on the profession of remote sensing science it’s Kass Green. Editor in Chief Joe Francica recently to sit down with this true remote sensing rock star in Scottsdale, Arizona and they discussed the impact of Google Earth on the remote sensing, privacy issues, and how change detection applications of remotely sensed data might well become just another feature provided by Google.
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Foursquare vs. Gowalla? How about Bing Maps vs. Google Maps? Brady Forrest of O’Reilly Media and chairperson of the Where 2.0 Conference shares his views on some of the more popular web-based mapping platforms and social networks that are "location-aware." In this conversation with Editor in Chief Joe Francica, Forrest also discusses the popularity of the conference and its objective of bringing together both the GIS and neogeography crowd.
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