FortiusOne In the News

Red Herring Reveals FortiusOne Selected for the Red Herring North America 100 - Recognizing the Most Promising Companies Driving the Future of Technology

April 17, 2008

Red Herring today announced that FortiusOne was a finalist for the Red Herring 100 Award, a selection of the 100 most innovative private technology companies based in North America. The Red Herring editorial board diligently surveyed the entrepreneurial scene throughout the North American region and identified the top 200 out of more than 800 closely evaluated companies that are leading the next wave of innovation.

“We can see the exciting evolution of the technology sector reflected in the quality and variety of exceptional companies that we had to choose from in putting our list together," said Joel Dreyfuss, editor-in-chief of Red Herring." Read More

The Mason Gazette - What You Don't Know Might Hurt You: Alum's Work Balances National Security and Information Sharing

November 19, 2007

"Gorman’s vision for FortiusOne is for the company to play a key role in interconnecting and sharing the world’s geographic data to make people better informed about issues that affect their neighborhood and the world around them. He believes that many of the policy issues facing the public can be conveyed in a powerful way with maps and that GeoCommons can help facilitate that awareness. “Security is where we got our start, but we feel the future of the technology is in sharing information and educating the public with a variety of serious and fun data you can visualize on a map,” says Gorman." Read More

The Economist - The World on Your Desktop

September 6, 2007

"As the internet becomes intertwined with the real world, the resulting “geoweb” has many uses…these examples illustrate the emerging architecture of the geoweb: data, such as information on traffic jams or seismic tremors, is hosted separately from the images and models of the geobrowser, which assembles, combines and displays the information in new ways. GeoCommons.com hosts data, from crime rates to melanoma statistics, that can be combined to create colour-coded “heat maps” of intangibles such as “hipness”."

"When the analytical insights and data quality of GIS are combined with the geoweb's visualisation and networking prowess, startling efficiencies emerge." Read More

Business 2.0, July 2007 - What's Next - The Top 10 Products, Ideas, and Trends -- Map Mashups Made Easy

July 2007

"...Washington-based start-up FortiusOne launched GeoCommons, a cartographic portal where users can easily create their own mashups. The site has 2 billion pieces of localized data - from census figures and school district budgets to water-contamination and traffic-congestion hot spots - and it is rapidly adding more." Read More

WIRED -- Find Hip Housing, Earthquakes and Bigfoot At GeoCommons

May 29, 2007

"GeoCommons is a web service that hosts an open database for sets of geodata anyone can mash together to create custom maps. ...The screenshot above shows an excellent and creative application of the service."