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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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Apple Provides Free Cloud
Announced by Apple today: iCloud will compete with and likely severely hurt vendors that have as part of their services file synchronization. Watch this carefully...
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Products Should Communicate Effectively
From the Harvard Blogs: Yes, designed well and communicate to their context transparently. " ... Obviously there are many dimensions of communication, but as...
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IBM Offers Cheaper City in a Box
Had to smile at this one. IBM has been pushing their Smarter City idea heavily in ads. Cities are in trouble financially today with the rest of government. So...
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American Library Association Abstracts
Here the abstracts of the poster sessions from the American Library Association's recent meeting. Having dabbled in library science and its reaction to changes...
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Games in Employee Recruitment
WSJ Piece includes a good example of how the enterprise is using gamification. I have seen similar examples in retail training: " ... While it's not clear ifMarriott...
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Explaining Relevance Metrics in Search
Relevance metrics are important. How can they be best explained? Very similar to the issues we had in artificial intelligence in explaining results satisfactorily...
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The Evolution of the Semantic Web
Evolution Towards Web 3.0: The Semantic Web. A talk by Lee Feigenbaum . Good background and overview of direction.
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Mind Map Library for Mobile
I am continuing my exploration of the use of mobile mind maps. Biggerplate is an example of such a library, containing some 1100 examples. Compatible with several...
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MindManager for iPhone and iPad
An App version of the popular MindManager mind mapping software for the Ipad and Iphone is scheduled to come out around June 15. Costing 9 and $7 respectively. ...
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Using Recorded Future
I have begun taking a closer look at the time oriented search engine Recorded Future for some potential client engagements. Visualization is a key method they...
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Browser Fingerprinting
Who you are can be effectively determined by the visible fingerprint of your browser and its configuration. How much does this undermine your privacy? Slashdot...
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Crowds Need Independence for Wisdom
More evidence that crowds need to retain independence to maintain the 'outlier canceling' effect that can make them useful to solve problems. Obvious, but important...
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Supermarkets Morphing to Restaurants
Prepared foods continue to increase in availability in supermarkets, due to bigger margins. The next step is to wrap in the restaurant as well. More margin and...
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Dunnhumby Acquires BzzAgent
BzzAgent is a company that seeks to get people talk about brands.They are being acquired by loyalty data agent Dunnhumby. BzzAgent reminds, in name and direction...
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Online Currency: Bitcoin
Bitcoin, the experiment with encrypted online currency. Dangerous? A Scam? Revolutionary or just a renaming of something old? Will it be made illegal? It ultimately...
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Archiving Everything
Remembering being surprised in 2010 that the US Library of Congress was archiving Twitter. Lots of details about that effort here. So many data mining opportunities...
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Crowd Sourced Eyetracking
A look at YouEye ... An interesting concept that is likely very cheap. But what will the quality be like? Tracks using your own camera for user interface design...
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Touchscreen vs Heavy Lifting OS
A look at touchscreen as an interface versus full operating systems. Praises an early look at Windows 8, but says it cannot match the simplicity of an iPad. But...
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