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 […]
Two New Books
Two new books arrived this week that may be of interest. Naked Conversation – How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel is very timely with all that is going on in the world of blogging. I know Robert from Microsoft. He has been active in evangelizing […]
Open Hopes for 2006
The debate about the OpenDocument format is still underway. See this link for a list of the stories in patrickWeb about it. Bob Sutor over at IBM just posted a very good story called "Open standards, open source, open minds, open opportunities". Rather than repeat or plagiarize it, here is a link to it. It […]
Genographic Project – Update
Within ten minutes of posting the story, I got an update from Kris Lichter at IBM. Kris is program director for the Genographic Project at IBM’s Healthcare and Life Science Solutions group. The genographic project hit 100,000 kits purchased by the public on December 18th. Kris, says "That was our five year goal, and it […]
The Genographic Project
One of the subjects I know the least about is genetics. Some day I will read some books and learn how the human body’s 50 to 100 trillion cells combine to form our tissues and organs. One of the most interesting aspects of the body is how the genes inside each cell comprise the "blueprint" […]
