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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Payment by SmartPhone at Starbucks
Report of using a barcode based payment method via a IPhone at some Starbucks. Once you have set it up you can use it to pay your bill via a displayed barcode. ...
From Wild WebMink
? Imogen Heap at the Albert Hall
We were in London yesterday on our way back from a family celebration (congratulations Alastair!) and were lucky enough to have great tickets for Imogen Heap’s...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Transforming the Healthcare Enterprise
Mark Montgomery of KYield on Transforming the Enterprise. Read the entire newsletter at the link. He provides his personal answer to the question: How can information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
US News and World Report Drops Mailed Distribution
I recall reading USN&WR long ago and though I have dropped looking at it over the years. I did have a fondness for it its existence. That was not sufficient to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Goodbye Google 411
I see that the Google 411 service is about to be dropped. I had become accustomed to the ability to do accurate hands-free local phone connections using it. Bing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Data Visualization Language
New to me in ReadWriteWeb: A new data visualization language for non-programmers. With the odd name: Impure. The language is completely visual in natureIt's...
From Putting People First
Content Strategy: no longer just the preserve of the web professional
Jeremy Baldwin, company director at Bright Blue Day, a full-service design and marketing agency in Dorset, UK, argues that we should stop talking about content...
From Putting People First
The evolved user experience
Alexander Negash, analytics and user experience manager at the American Cancer Society, discusses on UX Magazine how to adopt social technologies in user research...
From Putting People First
Nine reasons smartphones are dumb remotes
As the Internet and TV converge in living rooms, lots of folks, including the New York Times, have been drooling over the idea of smartphones as next-gen remotes...
From Putting People First
Building a Homesense
The London Tinker people have published a nice informal write-up of where things are with the Homesense project they are working on. Homesense is an epic piece...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Reciprocity with Google
Very interesting article at GigaOM. Google has changed some of its API agreements to try to force more data sharing between vendors. This could make for more...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ease of Blogging
Colleague Walter Riker pulls together some good comments in his always interesting Ease of Blogging space. Worth putting on your feed.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Ed Felten Named FTC
Our colleague Ed Felten, Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs and the founding Director of the Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) at Princeton...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ovulation/Period App from Procter
An IPhone App that tracks Ovulation from P&G. As might be expected, also markets Always feminine protection products.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media Strategy and LinkedIn
At a local Business Intelligence meeting I met Crystal Thies, of Crystal Clear Buzz. She does social media strategy. In particular I liked some of her thoughts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Uniting Towards Item Level RFID
Something we looked at for years, moving towards the replacement of the barcode. Some predictors had this happening by 2005. Not yet, but some are still looking...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-11-05
Good news, of a kind, from a dark world The truly awful nightmare at the end of this short article is the reason I strive to keep my personal life personal despite...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson