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From Putting People First

Adam Gopnik: “Why I don’t tweet”

Adam Gopnik, who writes for the New Yorker, has only ever sent nine tweets. In this long BBC article he explains why: ” Everyone insists that the technological... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 9, 2014 at 03:56 PM

From Putting People First

Move over product design, UX is the future

Rick Wise, CEO of Lippincott, says experience innovation is the next design imperative. Here are five things you can do this year to make that happen. “Today’s... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 9, 2014 at 03:45 PM

From Putting People First

There is no UX, there is only UX

Leisa Reichelt, Head of User Research at the Government Digital Service [GDS] in the UK Cabinet Office, argues that UX belongs everywhere and nowhere. That there... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 9, 2014 at 03:41 PM

From Putting People First

A review of Adam Greenfield’s Against the Smart City

Chris Carlsson started reading Adam Greenfield’s new book, Against the Smart City, “with the expectation that it would be a critical view of the ways our urban... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 9, 2014 at 03:30 PM

From Putting People First

How Big Brother’s going to peek into your connected home

The tech industry easily convinced the public to accept a myriad of free services for the price of some loss of privacy. But getting them to embrace the smart home... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 9, 2014 at 03:17 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

DARPA Open Catalog of Resources

Brought to my attention, the DARPA open catalog, which links to available computational, analytical and visualization resources. Note mention of XDATA and Big"... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 9, 2014 at 02:41 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Grocery and Twitter

Orlando Publix using Twitter. Good example of simple social media use in physical retail. " .... A year ago this month, Publix realized its customers were already... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 9, 2014 at 10:35 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

The Visual Organization

Forthcoming book brought to my attention, an idea we have frequently supported here. For example, see the following post. Look forward to a deeper examination... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 9, 2014 at 09:52 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Get to the Point and the Focus

A long time enterprise goal was to facilitate focus to tasks. Projects like P&G's Business Sphere, starting with earlier work in executive information systems,... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 8, 2014 at 09:57 PM

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Black Versus White Boxes

What is better than how (?) History of filters source. Wilhelm Cauer was a German mathematician and engineer who worked in Göttingen and the US between the two... Pip
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | February 8, 2014 at 06:50 PM

From CERIAS Blog

You’re invited!

Four days -- two major events! The 15th Annual CERIAS Security Symposium Purdue University, March 26-27, 2014 We're living in a time of transition. Cyberthreats... Gene Spafford
From CERIAS Blog | February 8, 2014 at 03:26 PM

From CERIAS Blog

You’re invited!

Four days -- two major events! The 15th Annual CERIAS Security Symposium Purdue University, March 26-27, 2014 We're living in a time of transition. Cyberthreats... Gene Spafford
From CERIAS Blog | February 8, 2014 at 03:26 PM

From CERIAS Blog

You’re invited!

Four days -- two major events! The 15th Annual CERIAS Security Symposium Purdue University, March 26-27, 2014 We're living in a time of transition. Cyberthreats... Gene Spafford
From CERIAS Blog | February 8, 2014 at 03:26 PM

From CERIAS Blog

You’re invited!

Four days -- two major events! The 15th Annual CERIAS Security Symposium Purdue University, March 26-27, 2014 We're living in a time of transition. Cyberthreats... Gene Spafford
From CERIAS Blog | February 8, 2014 at 03:26 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

IrezQ America Smartphone Sensors for Travel Safety

I see that my correspondent Art Caisse was the founder of and is now the executive chairman of IrezQ-America. The smartphone app automatically contacts emergency... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 8, 2014 at 12:39 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Expanding Paths to Online Grocery

Online grocers. An area we watched closely. It worked then, but selectively. Has the corner turned? Article contains some good current examples." ... As online... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 8, 2014 at 09:46 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Rise of Wikidata

In Computing Now. Introduced to the idea a year ago. Worth a further look. Using Wikipedia data for a centralized source of structured public data makes much... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 8, 2014 at 09:28 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Real and Virtual Worlds and the Proteus Effect

I covered virtual worlds extensively in this blog in the past. In particular how they could be used to simulate real work interactions. See previous posts onon... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 7, 2014 at 10:25 PM

From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Radioactive Giant Squid Washes Ashore in California

Uh oh. And the real story. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. schneier
From Schneier on Security | February 7, 2014 at 05:54 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Self Destructive Electronics

IBM win a contract to research the topic. I recall this idea being discussed before the need became more critical. " ... The military wants to use self-destructing... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 7, 2014 at 05:29 PM