Roman Geocaching
I was anxious to get going so I quickly selected three geocaches that were closest to the hotel — Forum’s Revival, Coliseum, and Circus Maximus — downloaded the latitudes and longitudes into the Magellan eXplorist GPS and hit the street. It would have been much better if I had done some better planning, reviewed the […]
Geocaching at Demo 2006
The weather in Phoenix is beautiful. Both before and after the First Round Capital investor luncheon, I was able to head up on the trails near the hotel and find a couple of geocaches. If you have time I would recommend finding In The Rough and Camelback Mountain View Cache. Some of the others close […]
Three G’s
IBM has added a new dimension to the Genographic Project. More than 100,000 people have acquired genographic kits and had their DNA analyzed and learned where they came from. This is not the last few generations of the family tree but rather about what haplogroup they belong to and what migratory path was taken by […]
Palladium Caching
Thanks to Susan Panian at American Town Network (now the largest online community network in the U.S.) for telling me about how Palladium shoes is taking an innovative approach to selling shoes by tapping in to Geocaching. Geocaching is on my short list of next big things, and I have promised to write a non-trivial […]
Route 7 Benchmarks
U.S. Route 7 reaches 309 miles from Highgate Springs, Vermont to Norwalk, Connecticut. Parts of Route 7 are quite scenic but much of the highway is used heavily by commuters. I am not sure how many of the nation’s 736,425 benchmarks are along the entire route but by doing some research using the Geocaching Swiss […]
