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3D Imaging Patents at Apple
From The Eponymous Pickle

3D Imaging Patents at Apple

An interesting patent description from Apple on 3D imaging patents.   And some additional information on 3D imaging developments.  Useful for retail context applications...

Cross Posting in Pinterest and GPlus
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cross Posting in Pinterest and GPlus

Starting immediately, select posts from this blog will be cross posted in Pinterest and G+ under my name as an experiment.  Follow them there as this idea and design...

Supply Chains Benefit From Information Sharing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Supply Chains Benefit From Information Sharing

This is obvious.  Collaboration is important at strategic and tactical levels.  But the details are worth repeating. " ... In a report by SCM World, 49.1% of buyers...

Process: Making Analytics Work for Every Company
From The Eponymous Pickle

Process: Making Analytics Work for Every Company

When I worked with analytical methods in the big enterprise, it was often the case that work had already been done to map out the business processes involved.  ...

Check Outs of the Past
From The Eponymous Pickle

Check Outs of the Past

LA Times Article:  On the state of the supermarket checkout and coming expected migration to smartphones.   With a pointer to technologies of times past that we...

Wikipedia and the University
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wikipedia and the University

Abstract of a case study:  it is still evolving, but the younger cadres of teachers and students see it as a viable tool.  Similar to the way any encyclopedia was...

Jive Intranet Gamification
From The Eponymous Pickle

Jive Intranet Gamification

Team collaboration and Gamification.  An area we looked at a number of times without much success.  Corporate culture was never one to experiment with anything...

Simplicity in IT
From The Eponymous Pickle

Simplicity in IT

Twitter event today:@IBMSmtrCmptng Expert Integrated Systems Twitter chat TODAY at 4PM EST #expertsyschat http://goo.gl/vC95hI will comment later.

New SAS Visual Analytics for Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

New SAS Visual Analytics for Big Data

In Information Management:   The in-memory  play continues: " SAS has unveiled a new in-memory analytics platform designed for scalability and very fast performance...

Top 50 Brands in Content Marketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Top 50 Brands in Content Marketing

Some interesting statistics about mostly very well known companies that develop online content.  Includes measures like Twitter followers, Facebook fans, Unique...

Judea Pearl Wins Turing Award
From The Eponymous Pickle

Judea Pearl Wins Turing Award

For contributions to artificial intelligence in the area of uncertainty and causal reasoning.  More details about his work here.  His excellent book:    ... ...

Giving Credit
From The Eponymous Pickle

Giving Credit

In the HBR Blogs:    We were always taught to give credit where it was due in the big enterprise.  It does not meant that it always happened.  A certain amount...

Statistical Insights
From The Eponymous Pickle

Statistical Insights

Steve Miller in Information Management:  On our inability to link common sense and statically rigorous reasoning.   Very true, and it is even more difficult tohis...

Tablets Enhance Buying
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tablets Enhance Buying

In a survey by Aislebuyer.  "  ... 57% of shoppers said retailers that use mobile devices instead of cash registers are more appealing, even though only 22% have...

Wikipedia Page 1 Rank
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wikipedia Page 1 Rank

For some time now it has been common to see Wikipedia results to come up on page 1 of a Google search. Search Engine Watch looks at a number of studies that...

George Dyson on Advertising
From The Eponymous Pickle

George Dyson on Advertising

In the Edge:  George Dyson on self-replicating codes, the universe .... and strangely,  on advertising.  Or more generally as I see it 'selling' ..." ... What's...

Probabilistic Topic Models
From The Eponymous Pickle

Probabilistic Topic Models

In the CACM:   Somewhat Technical, but some valuable insights:  " ...   Surveying a suite of algorithms that offer a solution to managing large document archives...

Getting Ready for Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Getting Ready for Big Data

Good general piece in CIO about getting ready for Big Data.  Companies will increasingly need to leverage the data within their own domains and lead rather than...

The Big Idea of Associative Intelligence
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Big Idea of Associative Intelligence

What is the big idea of Associative intelligence?  In a back of the envelope exploration, Saffron Tech presents the idea.  It is an important one.  How do we save...

Making Navigation Systems Unusable
From The Eponymous Pickle

Making Navigation Systems Unusable

In CNet Reviews:  An example of how to let regulations contort perfectly good technology to make their use as unusable and complicated as possible.  Keep it simple...
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