KML (formerly Keyhole Markup Language) is a technology that Google puts their weight behind in an attempt to create an open standard for expressing geographic annotation and visualization. Well, on April 13th, the Open Geospatial Consortium, announced that OGC Approves KML as Open Standard.
Open standards are fantastic and will help to ’spur on’ innovation and [...]

Yay! We just found out HomeZilla will be presenting at the Canadian Innovation Exchange to be held in Toronto on April 29th and 30th. Presenting to and network with the folks attending the Canadian Innovation Exchange is going to be exciting. They have an excellent list of speakers; personally, I am looking forward to seeing [...]

Yesterday, a story on Techmeme caught our eye. It was entitled “We Need a Wikipedia for data,”. I agree with much of this blog post; allowing a larger number of people access to data will surely help make the information more useful.
A good example of ‘opening up data’ can be found in the book ‘Wikinomics‘ [...]