Article: Death

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This summer I’ll be moving to Houston from Provo.  In light of that I’ve been thinking about how many of my on-line accounts I’ll need to switch addresses on, and of those accounts how many will I need to use the, “Forgot Password,” function.  This article offers the long run solution.

Data: Awesome

http://bit.ly/aWJuBP

So sometimes we wonder how we can make our data look like an article out of Time or Wired, well now you can with this helpful guide.

Data: Visualized

http://bit.ly/bRljSV (Article)

In watching just the first few minutes of the embedded video you’ll see some cool flow charts.  Turns out you can easily make those now thanks to Google.  Granada has used them in the past, and is an interesting way to watch time trends in a captivating way.

Data: Movies

http://bit.ly/asXBNF

This is kind of an interesting picture, showing clusters where movies are similar to each other based on ratings.  Could something similar be done for how a business looks at clients, and vice versa?

Data: Mapped

http://bit.ly/aK2ANX

What do: October 2003, Nintendo revolution, Hurricane Katrina, India, RuneScape, Anarchism, and Britney Spears all have in common?  They may be some of the most frequently edited Wikipedia pages, or maybe just the most vandalized.

Statistics: Deadly

http://bit.ly/cm1ejo

Howard Wainer discusses five cases where the misunderstanding of a simple statistics formula is to blame for all the confusion.

Total Costs $310,000,000

Want to own the top floor? Go ahead, about 12,000 ft. at $1800 per sq\f.  Oh wait, Papa Johns already bought it.

Thank you DDRM for the tour! http://bit.ly/8YEsmB

(Salt Lake City, Utah & Leesburg, Virginia)

February 1, 2010 – smartRealm™ LLC and Granada Advisors today announced a strategic partnership wherein Granada Advisors will offer smartRealm’s cutting-edge Social Network Optimization (“SNO”) solutions to clients. Granada will arm its clients with smartRealm’s innovative and unique technology, providing them with groundbreaking solutions to engage current and potential customers via a myriad of social network platforms in order to promote and protect their brands and products.

“Our clients will benefit from the combination of smartRealm and Granada’s leading technology and services, providing them with the insight and tools needed to interact successfully with their customers in the social media ecosystem,” said Brad Heitmann, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Granada Advisors. “Implementation of smartRealm LLC’s solutions will enable companies to optimize customer service and launch measurable and effective marketing campaigns, all complemented by a better understanding of each customer’s place and influence within the vast social network related to the client. It is a privilege to be working with Barry Glick and Yaser Bishr, both visionary entrepreneurs, to bring their unique technology to a broad audience of corporate clients,” Heitmann continued.

“We are thrilled to be working more closely with Granada and we think this agreement represents a great opportunity to benefit our clients and grow our business,” said Barry Glick, Co-founder and CEO, smartRealm LLC. “smartRealm offers a highly differentiated service that is complementary to Granada’s finance and strategy advisory services, and this partnership will enable our clients to leverage the power of the social relationships of their customer to accelerate customer acquisition and reduce churn, so that they can make informed decisions, grow more quickly, and be more profitable,” added Yaser Bishr, Co-founder and Executive Vice President of smartRealm LLC.

About smartRealm LLC:

smartRealm LLC extracts critical social network relationships and information from user interactions on social network sites, fuses that information with enterprise data, and delivers real-time tailored insights that enable organizations to take decisive and effective actions. smartRealm is headquartered in Leesburg, Virginia.

About Granada Advisors:

Granada Advisors is a modern consulting firm providing finance and strategy advisory services to small-to-medium sized businesses and outsourced research solutions to financial institutions. Granada also collaborates with sources of private capital, executive talent and other strategic partners to bring added value to their clients. Granada is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.