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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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Designing for Collaboration and Mobility Plus Circles
Have recently seen several examples of companies handing out large numbers of tablets and phone Apps, without really thinking through the entire process. HereDesigning...
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P&G Moves Toward Continual Marketing Analysis
This is the future, providing continuous analysis to key measures and making sure the right people get the data continually. Procter & Gamble is working withAdvertising...
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Luckiest Generation
MJ Perry on the youngest generation. At least technologically, and even at a minimum wage job, quite remarkable.
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Who Uses Mag 2-D Barcodes?
In ADAge: Key findings " ... Among Readers Who Saw Ads with Codes, 4% Snapped a Picture, Gfk MRI Starch Research Says : As quickly as interactive 2-D barcodesyou...
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Google to Buy Motorola
We worked with Motorola and Symbol, a company it bought, to understand technology in retail. Now Google is buying Motorola for an estimated 12 Billion. Google...
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Gesture Technology
Gestures are a way to have consumers interact with systems in retail. One of our areas of exploration was to understand this dynamic. The Canadian formGestureTek...
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MobileWorks: Mobile Human Sourcing Intelligence
Long a follower of human and by extension crowd sourcing human intelligence tasks. Humans are just much better at efficiently performing certain tasks than machines...
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If Berners-Lee Had Patented the Web
If Berners-Lee had sought and received a patent for the Web, it would just now be coming out of patent protection. The consequences of that? What does that tell...
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Overview of Business Intelligence
A good semi technical overview of BI in CACM: " ... Business intelligence (BI) software is a collection of decision support technologies for the enterprise...
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Gamification Wiki
This looks to be a useful resource. About game mechanics and other resources.
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Open Source Sensing
The Foresight Institute on Open Source Sensing. " ... Establishing standards now for current and near future widespread sensing based upon smart phones owned by...
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How an Innovation Effort can get it Right, Mostly
A very good post and video about how newspapers saw their future in the early 1990s. Which describes how a Knight Ridder innovation group saw the future of...
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Business Intelligence Total Cost of Ownership
Mark Montgomery points me to a post on Boris Evelson's blog on Forrester's site regarding the total cost of BI ownership. Some very good comment interaction including...
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Replacing Wi-Fi
LED lights can be flickered very quickly to transmit data. It could replace Wi-Fi under some conditions, though it does require line of sight or easily reflected situations...
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Sands Research on Neuromarketing
Sand's most recent newsletter on neuroscience methods covers a number of interesting papers and articles on the topic. If you have not read about neuromarketing...
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Personal Computer in the Executive Suite
I saw this post about IBM's first personal computer, not the consumer PC, but the IBM 5150. In 1981 we received a loaner from IBM. One ended up in our Chairman's...
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Made in China Spending
MJ Perry on US consumer spending on goods made in China. Less than 2%. Surprising that it is so low.
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Shopping in 3D
Is it more fun to shop online in 3D rather than 2D? I experimented with this concept in the seminal virtual community Second Life, and found it less than satisfying...
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Amex Gives You Credit for Network
Interesting development I was late to: " ... Creating a social network is so last week. Today, American Express is unveiling a social media platform called "Link...
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