It’s tough to be a regular blogger when spending the summer in beautiful Prince Edward Island. And while PEI is still primarily rural, it is actually quite technologically advanced, and there are some superb bloggers right here in PEI–but the pace of life is still much slower here, so the idea of a daily (okay, even weekly?) blog seems frenetic. Anyway, I figure you’d rather hear from me when I feel I had something to say, rather than forcing or manufacturing blog entries…

But I recently had to do a little digging on the topic of the intersection of mashups and business research, and came across a handful of existing Google map mashups that look promising for business researchers, so I thought they would be worth sharing here.

Geoindex
View weekly returns of the S&P 500 companies.

World NewsVine Map
A mash-up of world news and Google Maps. Pins are placed on spots around the globe where there is breaking news.

Locations of recent venture funding in Southern California

SRC: Extend the Reach
This demo site lets users input an address to obtain demographic reports from either the Census 2000 Report or the Census 2000 Housing Report.

If you have any other business research related mashups to share, please feel free to do so here!

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