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July 2011


From The Eponymous Pickle

Smartphone Forensics

Smartphone Forensics

It is remarkable what can be determined from information that is stored on your smartphone.  Not only where you are but lots of information about what you are doing.  A study of why the police want this information, and the cautions…


From The Eponymous Pickle

More on Google and the Brain

More on Google and the Brain

A good post in Mind Hacks commenting on the Google and the brain study I also noted recently.  Knowing you have something at your fingertips does not mean than you will not increase the store of your knowledge.  Books, computers…


From The Noisy Channel

Guest Post: Diego Basch on The Need for Speed

Guest Post: Diego Basch on The Need for Speed

Diego Basch is the CEO and founder of IndexTank, a hosted search service that powers major web sites such as Reddit, Twitvid, blip.tv, as well as providing a WordPress plug-in for blogs (like this one).


From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Mining Health Data, 140 Characters at a Time

Mining Health Data, 140 Characters at a Time

Imagine you’re at the CDC, and you’re trying to predict and respond to this year’s flu season in real-time. You could either contact millions of Americans — or let them contact you via Twitter. In an exciting paper titled “A…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Counting the Internet of Things

Counting the Internet of Things

We continue to look at how things, in addition to people, now reside identified on the network.  Trackable, queriable and countable.  GigaOM Infographic says among other things, that the things on the net exceeded people on the…


From Putting People First

Talk to Me

Talk to Me

In her New York Times review of Talk to Me (online journal), the latest exhibition by Paola Antonelli at the MoMA, Alice Rawsthorn describes what could be considered the essence of interaction design: “Digital technology is enabling…


From The Eponymous Pickle

KTM Advance - Games and e-Learning

KTM Advance - Games and e-Learning

Newly discovered, KTM-Advance,   E-Learning and serious games. Have been examining that aspect of games recently. In particular regarding sales training.   Appears to be an interesting solution to examine.  One of their client…


From Putting People First

European museums and libraries in/of the age of migration

European museums and libraries in/of the age of migration

MeLa – European Museums and Libraries in/of the Age of Migrations – is a brand new four-year research project, funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme, which aims to delineate new approaches for…


From Putting People First

Izmo Summer School 2011

Izmo Summer School 2011

Izmo, the Italian association focused on participatory process, local development, architecture, design and ICT, organizes an International Summer School in Torino from September 5th to 14th 2011 that proposes the public space…


From Putting People First

New RSA Journal out

New RSA Journal out

The Summer 2011 edition of the RSA Journal explores the relationship between business and social change. Brand values As the social, political and commercial spheres become more intertwined, firms are increasingly finding incentives…


From Putting People First

Smartphones could mean end of web

Smartphones could mean end of web

The proliferation of powerful mobile phones could see control of the internet pass into the hands of corporations, positions John Naughton in The Observer today. “We are on the slippery slope towards a much more controlled, less…


From The Eponymous Pickle

G+ Complete Guide

G+ Complete Guide

Mashable has what they call a complete Guide to G+.    Can't be completely true since what G+ is continues to evolve.  Yet it is a good introduction to the parts that can get you started.   What they have done is an excellent…


From The Eponymous Pickle

T Commerce Interfaces

T Commerce Interfaces

Thought about this while slipping through Flipboard on an iPad.   A completely configurable magazine and Reader that emphasizes images.  Very addictive.   I have added this blog to it, so I can see everything in a new enhanced…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Do We Need to be More Social?

Do We Need to be More Social?

Is Microsoft working on a social networking project.  Do we need more social?  I guess we can see these efforts  as competition for our social connections and someone will win, but the time is just not there to connect and try…


From Putting People First

Exploring the shift In search behaviors with Microsoft

Exploring the shift In search behaviors with Microsoft

Jacquelyn Krones, a Senior Product Manager from Microsoft, is in charge of an ongoing ethnographic research project on understanding search behavior.


From Putting People First

User experience design principles

User experience design principles

During the conference “An Event Apart” (AEA) in Boston, UX designer Whitney Hess gave a talk entitled “Create design principles and use them to establish a philosophy for the user experience.” Hess wants to create universal principals…


From Putting People First

Interaction designers convene in Florence

Interaction designers convene in Florence

Greg Williams reports in Wired UK on the recent Frontiers of Interaction conference in Florence, Italy. “Few people need an excuse to spend time in Florence, so it speaks volumes for the organisers of Frontiers of Interaction…


From Putting People First

The difference (and relationship) between usability and user experience

The difference (and relationship) between usability and user experience

In a blog post, Justin Mifsud discuss the terms usability and user experience, highlighting their differences and more importantly the relationship that exists between them. “Usability is a narrower concept than user experience…


From Putting People First

How technology makes us better social beings

How technology makes us better social beings

Sociologist Keith Hampton (University of Pennsylvania) believes technology and social networking affect our lives in some very positive ways


From Putting People First

Study finds that memory works differently in the age of Google

Study finds that memory works differently in the age of Google

The rise of Internet search engines like Google has changed the way our brain remembers information, according to research by Columbia University psychologist Betsy Sparrow published July 14 in Science.


From Putting People First

Technology and moral panic

Technology and moral panic

Why is it that some technologies cause moral panic and others don


From The Eponymous Pickle

Caricatures and Facial Recognition

Caricatures and Facial Recognition

The brain is a powerful facial recognition machine.   It is only recently we have figured out how to systematize to a degree this kind of analysis using image recognition with computers.   This article shows how caricatures can…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Google and the Brain

Google and the Brain

Much this week about how Google and web may be changing the way the brain operates.   Here an article in Rough Type, with a good view of the debate, with an expected direction.  Probably discussed even in Gutenberg's day. Books…


From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Giant School of Squid

Friday Squid Blogging: Giant School of Squid

Neat pictures.


From Schneier on Security

Interview in Infosecurity Magazine

Interview in Infosecurity Magazine

I think I gave this interview at the RSA Conference in February.


From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Finding One Man in 60 Million Square Miles

Finding One Man in 60 Million Square Miles

Search is a hard problem in computing, but it’s a critical problem in real life, as friends of computer scientist Jim Gray found out when he vanished at sea. In July’s issue of the Communications of the ACM, Gray’s friends describe…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Social Media Stats

Social Media Stats

A large list of social media stats to Kickstart your slidedeck.   Intriguing, though I always worry about the context of such a large and varied assortment. 


From Computational Complexity

Math, the Universe, and Everythign: Max Tegmark's Interpretation of reality (guest post)

(This is a guest post by Nadia Jones who blogs at online college about education, college, student, teacher, money saving, movie related topics. You can reach her at [email protected]. Why is she doing a guest blog? She …


From The Eponymous Pickle

Albertsons Removes Self Checkouts

Albertsons Removes Self Checkouts

  In Progressive Grocer.  A combination of concern about service levels and new regulations seems to be driving self-service out.  Longer term, though, I believe that self service will prevail.  See self checkout start to occur…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Visualizing Wikipedia

Visualizing Wikipedia

Hard to imagine, but the Wikipedia  is only ten years old.  Have we not beeing using it for much longer than that? Now there is a challenge to visualize its impact.

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