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 their predecessors to get from Africa to where they are currently living. The new twist is that IBM has added a ‘Genetic Journeys‘ site which describes IBMers’ individual perspectives and journeys into their ancient migratory history. Turns out that more than 10,000 of the kits to date have been acquired by IBM employees. It was interesting to read the comments of some former colleagues. My friend Irving said "The findings caused me to look into my heritage more, something I had not done in a long time".
The second G of the day was a speech by Tim Armstrong who is VP for Advertising Sales at Google. Tim said that Google believes there is 5 million trillion bytes of information on the web that is relevant to consumers and advertisers. Currently they have 170 trillion bytes of it in Google.

The third G of the day is for geocaching. I took a brisk walk to the NYC Corner Cache during the lunch hour at the SIIA Conference. This one is a webcam cache. I stood on the corner with one arm in the air while I used the other hand to call home. My wife went to the webcam site and copied my picture. I will be moderating a Future Technology panel as the last session of the conference.