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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 …
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Game Dynamics of Customer Loyalty
Good piece on the topic. Gaming principles applied to customer acquisition using virality and examples in a number of current systems. Good to answer client questions...
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Crowd Modeling and Simulation
Crowd Modeling and Simulation. A favorite topic as we examined in store behavior. This takes it much further, but the elements of simulation are useful.
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Mindshare and Unilever
Mindshare retains Unilevers 1.38 billion US advertising business.
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Google Knowledge Graph
In ReadWwriteWeb: A look at how Google is reoriented search to include more semantic knowledge. And provides a connection to related knowledge.
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Wolfram System Modeler
Newly announced a System and equation modeling tool based on Mathematica.Have not looked deeper yet, but this appears to be quite impressive. The post linked to...
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NFC Use Expands
In Computerworld. NFC is a wireless transmission method, operating over a few centimeters, that is typically used for payment from smartphones. It is now being...
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Future of Gamification
PEW report on the topic of gamification. Useful overview.
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Scaling and Power Laws
Good examination of power laws in the newly revived Exploring Complexity blog. An important idea that is introduced clearly here.
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Supply Dynamics
Recently visited: Material Demand Aggregation: Your Solution for Better Supply Chain PerformanceLeverage aggregate demand WITHOUT consigning material, installing...
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Occasion-Based Marketing at Coke
In CPGMatters: A classic approach to quantifying in-store behavior. Coke finds some insight along the way:Occasion-Based Marketing Triggers Coca-Cola's Solutions ...
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Mobile Grocery Shopping
Are you ready? Catalina's acquisition of Modiv media. What will the outcome of this be? Are consumers ready to broadly utilize in-store scanning? Based on "...
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A Business Intelligence Tool
I have worked for a number of small and medium size business intelligence applications. When a business has to address these kinds of problems without a consultant...
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Smarter Commerce for the Mid Size Business
Good futures piece on this topic.To help companies understand the Smarter Commerce Institute, the SMB Group and CRM Essentials are working on a series of posts...
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Curse of Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: Enumerating the curses of innovation. Regarding Intellectual property, and of course the patent system.
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Semantic Smarts in Search
A report on how Google is adding new semantic smarts into its search." ... Reportedly spotted by several users, the search pages are now displaying semantic data...
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Synthetic Biology Accellerator
I have heard the term 'synthetic biology' used many times. Most recently in the funding proposal for a startup. It is usually is misused in odd ways. These...
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Tailoring Billboards
Onstar patents a system to tailor billboards to individual drivers:" ... Like the billboards Tom Cruise encountered in Minority Report, the OnStar-linked ads would...
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Working Styles
Mindjet has an interesting document on workings styles. Surprisingly without any registration required. Good overview with useful links,
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Brochures
A long time interest is about the way computers have been sold in media. The Computer History Museum has an online exhibit of brochures that sold computers with...
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