In the last article on Perspective Power, the premise was that if you step back and look at your business problems in a different light to gain a new perspective, you will achieve higher levels of success in solving issues to maximize profits in the aggregate. Thus, I promised a short article on some other new technology coming from the MIT Simile project called Exhibit.

How many times have you been tied into a large spreadsheet of data and feel like it is not telling you anything? It does not do any serious calculations but ends up being a large dump for information that would be better served from a database application. Just as we are trying to introduce the concept of Property Banks along comes Exhibit http://simile.mit.edu/exhibit a lightweight structured data publishing framework that lets you create web pages with support for sorting, filtering, and rich visualizations by writing only HTML and optionally some CSS and Javascript code. Gosh, another new perspective on life.

You can easily take that spreadsheet and let Exhibit show you new views. As well you can take a Google Spreadsheet and bring data into Exhibit.

One of the best Web 2.0 Blogs I have come to enjoy recently is by author Michael K. Bergman at http://www.mkbergman.com titled AI³

His Blog is devoted to Adaptive Information and is one of the best structured repositories for finding extremely useful Web 2.0 tools. And in his most recent article he shows you how he embedded Exhibit into his own blog page. This is a perfect example of the Adaptive Information Age. Michael does a great job of defining the Adaptive Information Age upon us at http://www.mkbergman.com/?page_id=3