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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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Brandwashed
Just starting to read: Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade us to Buy by Martin Lindstrom. To be available September 20. Have...
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Coming to a Mall Near You
The esteemed Mayo Clinic is opening a retail outlet at the Mall of America. In MJ Perry's blog.
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P&G: Kinds of Innovation
Jonathan Salem Baskin on innovation at P&G. Is P&G succeeding because of innovative branding, or because of functional innovation? I have certainly seen both...
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Rules of Exception:Adapting the Process
In ReadWriteWeb: The way to address this is to have the process have the ability to adapt to changes. That can and has been done. It does not need AI, just...
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Macy's and Predictive Analytics
How Macy's uses predictive analytics. Visualization and other techniques. " ... The machinery of predictive analytics is only as good as the human-engineered...
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WiFi at McDonalds
I have now been a long time user of Wifi in the wild and note the many ways that it is applied. In some cases simply, in other places logging you out periodically...
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Meeting Wiz Appears in Smart Meeting Mag
Russell Brumfield, 'the Wiz', who we have worked with in the area of smart meeting technology and scent delivery strategies, appears in the August 2011 issue of...
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Semantic Webs in the Enterprise
The movement of the semantic web into the enterprise. One domain area at a time. I have seen this direction as well. Creating a completely generic solution,even...
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Kindle in the Browser
Amazon now offers a Kindle application for the Safari and Chrome Browsers (others coming) for access to the book reading cloud. I use their App on the iPhone...
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Collaborative Asynchronous Searching
I recently mentioned SearchTeam. I see it has now been looked at and reviewed in detail in Information Today, Note in particular the description of the Semantic...
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New Benchmark for AI
In CACM: Top chess players can now be defeated by computer programs. But this has not been the case for the Japanese game Go. New methods use Monte Carlo simulation...
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Neuromarketing and Big Marketers
A long article in Fast Company on how the company Nielsen subsidiary Neurofocus is working with major companies to implement Neuromarketing. Quite interesting...
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Stampt Customer Loyalty App
Recently brought to my attention and examined: Stampt, a simple smartphone based customer loyalty program. Links to social networking systems. More here,
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Math and Language
In New Scientist: Does mathematics depend less on our language than we thought? Mental calculation methods seem to say so, as well as studies of abacus usage.
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Is Gamification Bull?
Having been a veteran of the AI hype world I am always sensitive and open to criticisms of new technology hype waves. I like to promote new ideas because I amHere...
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Opportunities for Small Retail Spaces
In Retail Traffic: " ... Nationwide, the size of food stores is going down
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Future Cola
We took at look at Coca-Cola's futuristic drink blending and delivery dispenser for some time. It is a classic case of late differentiation and tailoring a product...
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Record Levels of P&G Ad Spending
In AdAge: Lots of interesting novel ad spending at P&G, including a connection with BlogHer and the online deoderant stand off. I guess brainless ad focusing...
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DemandTec and Sam's Club
New from DemandTec. We explored their capabilities seeking to better understand the relationship between assortment and profitability. Impressive approaches...
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