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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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Web vs Native Mobile App
Thoughts on Native vs Web Apps in Readwriteweb:" What is the future of the mobile Internet? Are native applications going to be the dominant form of digital interaction...
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MindBox Studios
Recently chatted with Mindbox Studios. Impressive so far. " .... Mindbox Studios is a web design and development company located in Cincinnati, Ohio. We specialize...
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Building Animations in HTML5 With Hype
Nice potential alternative to using Flash for animations, given the problem with delivering Flash on some popular phones and Pads. Investigating further.
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How Shopping is Changing
My colleague Walter Riker writes in his blog about how the nature of shopping is changing. Including a number of useful links. He follows trends and tech in retail...
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Google Abandons Newspaper Scans
Google has apparently abandoned their very ambitious plan to scan, and interpret the worlds past and present newspapers, and make them available via search. Having...
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Think Insights With Google on Consumer Behavior
New Google site that appears to be quite useful. " .... Welcome to Think Insights with Google At Google we believe data beats opinion. So we work hard...
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Amazon Sells more Kindle Books than Print Books
Time marches on ... Print books are sagging, I never expected this quite so soon. and I did not expect that there would be enough penetration of reading devices...
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Evernote
At Walter Riker's recommendation I have just started to use Evernote to manage notetaking for multiple clients. Overall this is very nicely done and allows you...
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Apple Causes Spiritual Reaction In Brains
Another post on spiritual/religious reactions seen in brain scans. The subject of a recent BBC documentary. This reminds me of work mentioned in Martin Lindstrom's...
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Empathy as Brand Equity in Retail
In my own experience in the retail world I saw several examples of this. Empathy, un linked to a profit motive has a very powerful effect. HBS article.
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Free Shipping
Many more orders online are now including 'free shipping'. Of course this is driven by the magic econometric term 'free', which takes something that used to be...
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First Commercial Quantum Computer
A claim for the first commercial quantum computer. From D-Wave. I spoke to this Canadian company some time ago suggesting applications, such as in supply chain...
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Intel Shifts to Mobile
A very good sign for mobile devices:CEO Paul Otellini said today that Intel is embarking on a big shift in focus, moving its center of gravity to the most power...
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Khan Academy
I was reminded recently of the The Kahn Academy, which is an excellent example what can be done with good enough technology and the perseverance to teach knowledge...
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The Story of Alan Turing
An interesting multi part history history post on Alan Turing. His work in cryptology and artificial intelligence were inspirational to me when I worked on AI...
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Simple Games for E-Learning
I have been looking at the process of adding simple games to E-learning to promote engagement. At the recent Lectora conference I saw a presentation by Benjamin...
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Cray and Sandia Institute for Knowledge Systems
Cray and Sandia have established a Supercomputing Institute for Learning and Knowledge Systems . Press Release. From Mark Montgomery of KYield. " ... Located...
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Design Lessons from the Bottom of the Pyramid
From the Harvard Blogs: Design Lessons from the Bottom of the Consumer Pyramid. " ... At the BOP, affordability is necessary but not sufficient. Tastes and aspirations...
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Stop Typing, Start Shouting
ShoutOMatic. A kind of audio twitter. " ... Think of each shout as an audible status update. In between some of your regular 'text' tweets and status updates...
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