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Have you seen the new Geodexy Tablet release?

The Spatial Networks product team catches CEO in the act of dishing on Geodexy.

More Geodexy videos at: http://www.youtube.com/user/geodexy

Posted by Mike Hapner Fri, 08 May 2009 11:41:00 GMT


The largest Kindle ever... DXXL

Just a little light reading this morning over coffee. I’m about to take this on the road for some ultra-mobile data collection - really looking forward to getting my fists on that QWERTY XL keyboard!


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Posted by Mike Hapner Thu, 07 May 2009 11:39:00 GMT


"Where Data Goes to Die"

 A reseller of a competitor’s mobile data collection platform said this to me once about his own product. I appreciate his honesty, and at the same time it’s been haunting me for months. People are paid to go out and collect data, that is once and forever completely useless to anyone. (How’s that for serving up a heaping dose of morale?) [Incidentally, in a not-uncharacteristic stroll down Anthropomorphism Lane, I have this visual of a little tree - sometimes wearing a "College" t-shirt - being fed into the mill like so many turkeys at a Sarah Palin interview, and coming out on the other side as stuffing for some manilla folder in a storage shed, never to be looked at again… It’s sad, what the little tree’s life is reduced to, it makes me want to run into the parking lot and hug the ones that are carefully landscaped into the pavement jungle - but then I think how good they have it, with job security and all, and it’s not the same… More coffee, please.] Just think about decades worth of data about your business, critical assets, even human resources, just sitting in a box somewhere - impervious to pattern review, cost analysis, or any other useful bit of aggregation. If it makes you crazy, you are probably more sane than you realize!

Posted by Nancy Carter Thu, 07 May 2009 14:24:00 GMT