Data Insight, Reputational Risk, and Bill Belichick: Sports Analytics &...
Can everyone immediately cite your worst professional decision? If you’re 3-time Super Bowl champion and coaching mastermind Bill Belichick, any moderately savvy NFL fan would blurt out “4th and 2“....
View ArticleThe Massive Potential of Verizon Mapquest
Last week’s announcement of Verizon’s purchase of AOL (which includes Mapquest) was greeted mostly with attempts at humor, with references either to AOL trial offer CDs or the “You’ve Got Mail” movie....
View ArticleMapquest + Mapbox: A Win-Win With A Huge Unanswered Question
In a rare confluence of a languid blogging pace with the tempo of events, my last post on the Verizon purchase of Mapquest was quickly followed by news that Mapquest would be contracting out its map...
View ArticleJS.Geo: Web Mapping at a Crossroads, and the Crossroads is in Philadelphia on...
Web maps are too important to be left to the mapping industry. Google figured this out before anyone else. Uber’s recent purchase of Microsoft’s Bing Maps assets and the sale of Nokia HERE geo assets...
View ArticleTimoney Group’s “Hot” List for 2016
We here at Timoney Group headquarters in Denver aren’t above a SEO-pandering listicle–we’ve done it before–and you clicked, so we’re all good. If you follow tech closely, much of what follows won’t be...
View ArticleGeographically Balancing Supply and Demand: Car Sharing in Denver
How do you geographically match supply and demand in the new sharing economy? For lodging, the old way was to have a fixed number of hotel rooms whose prices rise as the beds fill up. The new way is...
View ArticleThe Travelling Salesman Problem Is Not a Routing Problem, It’s A Monetization...
Creative destruction is awesome until it comes for your livelihood. Having made a few dollars over the years building custom routing applications, I had two distinct reactions when testing out the...
View ArticleBracing For The Satellite Pixel Glut of 2023
It’s a question as old as capitalism itself: does Supply create its own Demand? With Serious Money flooding the Earth Observation sector–Billionaire money, Former Treasury Secretary/ Wall Street money,...
View ArticleWhat If The Fix For the Geospatial Workforce “Crisis” Is…Better Pay?
I saw some of the most talented Spatial Minds of my generation…take non-spatial jobs for better money. Recently LinkedIn brought me tidings that two people in my network took new positions with no...
View ArticleWhen We Sell ‘Mapping’, What Precisely Is The Product?
Last year I ran into the always-incisive Will Cadell and we immediately started discussing a favorite hallway-track topic: how to effectively sell Geo. ME: “If I had to do it all over again, I...
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