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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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Twitter as the Ultimate Business Intelligence Tool?
Twitter as a Business Intelligence tool? I can see see the idea of tweets acting as a continuous interaction of interest and attention that can determine what...
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Google's Knols are Going Away
I was just sent a message warning me that the Google Knol system will be retired by April 30. We experimented with it in the enterprise in 2007, thinking about...
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IKEA Re Engineers the Touch Pad
For the launch of their iPad catalog IKEA has commissioned a clever new take a touch tablet designed for cold weather mittens. Video.
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Addressing Shopper Behavioral Shifts
Good piece from the editor of Mobile Marketer. Behavior is changing rapidly and retailers will have to keep up to survive. The data to describe this change is...
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Self Propelled Shopping Cart
A Kinect shopping cart that follows people around the store and can track what they put into it. The 'smarter cart' as they put it. Have followed and tested...
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Gartner Quadrant for Business Intelligence
In Tableau Software's blog they publish an overview of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence. A useful representation, but hardly quantitative...
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Marketing Optimization as a Big Data Problem
A very interesting article in the SAS Blog. " ... One of the areas that high-performance analytics has the potential to improve is marketing optimization....
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Documenting the Human Face of Big Data
A photographic project. What is it and what are its implications? More here.
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Titan Trading and Recorded Future Predictive Signals
I have been working with and testing some of the predictive analytics capabilities of RecordedFuture for some time now. You can test it for yourself at the link...
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Pepsi Urges Speed and Data Gathering
In CPGMatters: " ... The food industry needs to speed up the way it collects data, develops products, reduces days of inventory, and deals with the convergence...
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E-Books Interrupt Themselves
In The NY Times Media and Advertising Section: I have pondered this recently as I have started to use e-Books more often. My smartphone and pad readers interrupt...
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Sensors at the End of the Supply Chain: StoreFlix
I have had the pleasure to meet again with Phil Storage, CEO of StoreFlix and hear the advancements in his simple but high leverage, mobile-based technology."...
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Wicked Problems Free Book
Have been involved wicked problems for my entire career. We used to call them messy problems. Solved some, am still frustrated by others. Now there isa free online...
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Defining Under-Rated
In JunkCharts: A conversation on the meaning of being under-rated. Starting in the restaurant review sense. The comments also provide some intriguing thoughts...
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Shopping on a 3D Web
From Intel Research: Shopping on a 3D Web. A 3D Web for everyone?
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Low Brand Engagement on Facebook
In AdAge: " ...The common view that Facebook "likes" equate to brand engagement took a hit last month when the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute shared some interesting...
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Retailers Challenge the Wallet
Multiple retailers, including Target and Wal-Mart, to take on the challenge of Google Wallet. The consortium is setting up their own mobile payment system to challenge...
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Nature Special Edition: Turing at 100
Pioneer of artificial intelligence Alan Turing is celebrated in the 100th anniversary of his birth. A special edition of Nature Magazine. " ... In this collection...
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Unilever CMO Says Brands Must Adapt
The continued evolution of brands and their environment:Unilever Chief Keith Weed on How Brands Must Adapt to Evolution by Consumer SelectionUnilever chief marketing...
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