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From Putting People First

Design for digital context (white paper)

Fjord, the digital design consultancy, has just completed a white paper called “Design for Context: Understanding How User Context is Evolving”, looking at the... Experientia
From Putting People First | November 22, 2011 at 10:31 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Medical Data Access

From Technology Review: Discovered during a look at the 'medical circles' idea addressed here previously. To what degree should you have access to data whichDoctors... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | November 22, 2011 at 05:56 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Storeflix: A Social Network for Business

Just brought to my attention: Storeflix. " ... The social media application gives businesses the ability to instantly see and analyze their business operations... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | November 22, 2011 at 02:06 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

The Rock Paper Azure Challenge is back

The Rock Paper Azure Challenge is back and you could win big! Play Rock, Paper, Scissors in the cloud for your chance to win a trip to Cancun, an Acer Aspire... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | November 22, 2011 at 01:18 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

The New Know

Colleague Jose Guerra brought this book to my attention. The New Know: Innovation Powered by Analytics (Wiley and SAS Business Series) by Thornton A. May (Sep "... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | November 21, 2011 at 11:49 PM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Following last month’s focus on smart health and wellbeing, IEEE Intelligent Systems Erwin Gianchandani
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | November 21, 2011 at 08:46 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Gathering BI Requirements

From TDWI: How to interview for business intelligence requirements. This is fairly obvious, but worth reading if you you are new to this area, or as a reminder... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | November 21, 2011 at 06:10 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

A Look at Citrix Collaborative Workspace

A post in the HBR blog. A good look, with pictures, of the Citrix example. How can physical spaces promote effective collaboration, innovation, brainstorming... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | November 21, 2011 at 04:56 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

5% of Adults Use QR Codes

This seems quite low, though not far from my own observation, probably mostly those with other technology interests. The code reading Apps are getting better and... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | November 21, 2011 at 04:21 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

ShopKick Partners with Visa

Followed ShopKick for a while due to their more precisely locational approach for a retailer engagement method. Now a partnership has emerged: " ... Shopkick... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | November 21, 2011 at 04:06 PM

From My Biased Coin

Round Two Reviewing : An Exercise in Conditional Probabilities

We're in "round 2" of reviews for NSDI, and it's brought up a problem for me I've noticed before. I worry that, subconsciously, I'm inclined to give papers I read... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | November 21, 2011 at 03:38 PM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 21 November 2011

This week will be a short one with the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US later this week. I Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | November 21, 2011 at 03:04 PM

From Computational Complexity

The Jobs Bio

I just finished the Walter Isaacson biography of Steve Jobs. Seems like everyone in the blogosphere has analyzed every sentence in the book, so I won't do that.... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | November 21, 2011 at 02:10 PM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Third Annual CSEdWeek Just Around the Corner

The third annual Computer Science Education Week — CSEdWeek Erwin Gianchandani
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | November 21, 2011 at 01:30 PM

From Schneier on Security

Hack Against SCADA System

A hack against a SCADA system controlling a water pump in Illinois destroyed the pump. We know absolutely nothing here about the attack or the attacker's motivations... schneier
From Schneier on Security | November 21, 2011 at 12:57 PM

From Wild WebMink

Open Source Nurtures Innovation

Following on from a blog posting about open source and innovation by Stephen O’Grady, I’ve written about the way open source potentially makes innovation easier... Simon Phipps
From Wild WebMink | November 21, 2011 at 10:00 AM

From Putting People First

How much should people worry about the loss of online privacy?

Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal posted excerpts from a debate between Danah Boyd, Stewart Baker, Jeff Jarvis, and Chris Soghoian on privacy: “Privacy... Experientia
From Putting People First | November 21, 2011 at 07:40 AM

From Putting People First

Announcement: Dataviz workshop in Torino, Italy

On 12 to 17 December, the people of Better Nouveau plan Dataviz, an in-depth workshop on the visual representation of large datasets. Better Nouveau is an independent... Experientia
From Putting People First | November 21, 2011 at 07:29 AM

From The Noisy Channel

CIKM 2011 Industry Event: Chavdar Botev on Databus: A System for Timeline-Consistent Low-Latency Change Capture

This post is part of a series summarizing the presentations at Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | November 21, 2011 at 03:23 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Conagra Mills Does Analytics

An interesting business analytics example. Note that Conagra is using it for supply chain decisions with their clients: "... ConAgra Mills, a Commercial Foods... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | November 21, 2011 at 01:33 AM