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Controlling Swarms of Tiny Robots
From The Eponymous Pickle

Controlling Swarms of Tiny Robots

From IEEE Spctrum: We proposed a variant of this idea years ago.  Unleash a hoard of tiny robotic 'turtles' in a confined space like a warehouse to take inventory...

Web Illiteracy
From The Eponymous Pickle

Web Illiteracy

This ReadWriteWeb piece struck home.  Lately I have been in a number of conversations where I discovered that less is known about operational aspects of the Internet...

About Faces
From The Eponymous Pickle

About Faces

Revisiting About Face: The Secrets of Emotionally Effective Advertising, by Dan Hill. What is more primal than a face?   A good portion of our brains are devoted...

Impact Games
From The Eponymous Pickle

Impact Games

From a colleague:  ...  A company called ImpactGames www.impactgames.com and it

On the Future of Quantum Computing
From The Eponymous Pickle

On the Future of Quantum Computing

A good description and view of the future of quantum computing, by IBM and others.   In Computerworld: " ... Quantum computers could provide a big boost to technologies...

Why Chrome?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Why Chrome?

I wondered about this question.  It just seems much less versatile than other browsers. It is fast.  Is it in  the Chromification of the operating system?

Continuous Web Showcase
From The Eponymous Pickle

Continuous Web Showcase

Attended an excellent Web Startup Showcase today hosted by ContinuousWeb today.  One of the best I have ever seen, with some excellent presenting projects.  Hosted...

Jeff Bezos on Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Jeff Bezos on Innovation

Be stubborn on the vision and flexible on the details.  Jeff Bezos on innovation in Techdirt

New Google Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Google Analytics

The latest version of Google Analytics now includes new breakdowns of regions in many other parts of the world.   Very useful additional extraction.   See alsoGoogle...

Internet of Things
From The Eponymous Pickle

Internet of Things

A good overview article in the BBC on the Internet of Things.  Really a relatively old idea that we explored with MIT with such ideas like replacing the bar code...

Mobile Marketing Rules
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mobile Marketing Rules

Well put:  4 Rules of engagement for mobile marketing.    Author Carla Paschke ... is Director of Mobile Innovation at Engaugewhere she is responsible for providing...

Crowdsourcing to Create Metadata
From The Eponymous Pickle

Crowdsourcing to Create Metadata

Tagging images is one of the oldest crowdsourcing applications of constructing metadata...Dartmouth College researchers have developed Metadata Games, an experiment...

In Search of Structure
From The Eponymous Pickle

In Search of Structure

Searching for data structure, From the Noisy Channel by Daniel Tunkelang.  Some discussuib and lots of links about making data more useful.

Collaboration as an Intangible Asset
From The Eponymous Pickle

Collaboration as an Intangible Asset

In the Harvard Bogs:   Not so intangible, I say. Today though it can be done in ways that were not possible formerly.    In a conversation I had yesterday we discussed...

Wal-Mart and Social Commerce
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart and Social Commerce

Interesting piece on the direction that Wal-Mart is taking after their recent social networking acquisition. I agree with the author that this is very important...

Pads are Selling Fast
From The Eponymous Pickle

Pads are Selling Fast

Tablets are the fastest selling consumer tech devices in history: From the Official Google CPG Blog.

Turning Work into Play
From The Eponymous Pickle

Turning Work into Play

A Mashable infographic. An illustration of game mechanics at work. Where exactly will it work?

P&G Prepares 3D Enabled Detergent Launch
From The Eponymous Pickle

P&G Prepares 3D Enabled Detergent Launch

Procter is preparing a global launch of Ariel Detergent.  The new version of the product was developed using 3D technology to attack stains.  The company will also...

Barriers to Finding Knowledge
From The Eponymous Pickle

Barriers to Finding Knowledge

The Google blog on knocking down barriers to mobile search.  Addressing Speed, voice and images.  I find myself doing more and more mobile search.   Yet rarely...

What is Knowledge
From The Eponymous Pickle

What is Knowledge

Malcolm Chisholm looks at Knowledge.  What are vendors trying to sell me when they market knowledge management?
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