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Lately we have heard a great deal about "Black Swans" and how the markets are acting "differently". Perhaps this is because we have been ignoring data and stuck with an incorrect simplifying assumption that markets are "normally distributed"Image by Suzie Katz via Flickr
Shai Agassi left SAP awhile back and started BetterPlace to change the economics of the car industry -actually personal transportation.Image by bwc via Flickr
As some of you know - I've been interested in opportunities to improve productivity thru better information visualization. Most of the enterprise applications I have seen and used either no graphics or very basic charts even Business Intelligence solutions -- yet there has been an explosion in creativity in the area of scientific visualization. I believe there is an opportunity to help business users understand the interactions in the business and react better by using techniques of "info vis". Some examples are 'google maps mashups' , market treemaps, heatmaps and other techniques to combine multiple dimensions into a single view of the business.Image via CrunchBase
This week, I also tried out SmartSheet -- a new service for collaboration and project management. Looks like a good service with a number of useful features -- what really impressed me was the SmartSource feature that integrated with Amazon's Mechanical Turk.