FortiusOne Makes it as a Red Herring Finalist
April 17th, 2008by Sean Gorman
About the Author: Sean Gorman founded FortiusOne in 2005 to bring location based analytics to the mass market. Sean brings over 10 years of experience at the forefront of the geospatial revolution as a researcher, practitioner, and entrepreneur at FortiusOne. Through both academic and entreprenurial efforts he has been working to make geographic data more accessible to the public since 1997 culminating in the creation of GeoCommons – a crowd-sourced repository of statistical data and social feeds that can be easily mapped, remixed and reused by non-technical users.
Sean has been featured in media such as, Wired, Der Spiegel, ABC, Washington Post, Business 2.0, MSNBC, CBS and CNN. He also holds a PhD. From George Mason University in Public Policy where he was the Provost’s High Potential Scholar and was the recipient of the Fischer Prize. He has published dozens of articles on geographic data sharing and analysis, and authored the book Networks, Complexity and Security: The Role of Public Policy in Critical Infrastructure Protection. Read more from this authorWe got a bit of good news this week making the cut as a Red Herring Top 100 finalist. Considering there were over 800 companies in the running maybe this is not so bad. The folks in marketing are earning their ducats for sure. All the details can be found here.
In the bigger picture I think this is a good indicator of how the GeoWeb is becoming more mainstream and embraced by a larger business community. Hopefully this is one of many indicators pointing towards more business opportunities and investment dollars for the GeoWeb.
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