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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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Ease of Use and Mobility in BI
Good article in ECommerce Times on trends in Business Intelligence. I have noticed it as well, mobile applications put you just a few clicks away from always available...
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On the Timing of Bunchball
In GigaOM: I talked to Bunchball today, quite impressive. See their Gamification 101 white paper.I" ... n 2005, when the company debuted its software platform...
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NFC Based Coupons on Your Android Phone
A good example of how promotional consideration is starting to get easier to deliver in a mobile way.
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IPhone Tracking Bug to be Fixed
As expected, although the carefully set up, unencrypted storage of tracking locations was quickly declared a 'bug', it is definitely bad privacy publicity. ...
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Progressive Insurance via Sensors
In Engadget: A description of State Farm's IPhone App which uses phone sensors to determine speed location and acceleration to rate your driving. The point is made...
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Genetic Music
The Genetic Music Project was recently launched. " ... An open source genetic art project combining music and science. Where everyone is art and everyone can be...
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Known Myths about the Origin of the Internet
An interesting piece on the background of the Internet. It states that there was a myth that the Internet originated because its many nodes could survive a nuclear...
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Neuaer and Smartphone Location
In ReadWriteWeb: New potential from Smartphone location sensor ideas: " ... Imagine if your phone could tell you when your friend walked by so you could call them...
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BrandFlick: Finding a Company's Aha Stories
A local company that just appeared in the news, Brandflick. I have been involved with storytelling projects a number of times. Very useful for sketching outmentioned...
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Data Rights
What kinds of rights should we have when dealing with systems that gather our data? Does this mean we should not accept agreements that do no make this clear?Thoughtful...
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PayPal Ties EWallets
The method uses text messages to transfer payments. The article goes on to provide a good overview of the current market, tests underway, and the belief by many...
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Decline of Manufacturing
MJ Perry on a global trend of a decline in manufacturing. Though with population increasing don't we still need to have more things to be manufactured? Very...
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Examining A Measure of Social Connectivity
In Roughtype: A look at a study that generates a measure called NFC, or 'need for cognition', which is ' ... "a recognized indicator for deep or shallow thinking...
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IBM and Yale Team Up to Teach Analytics
Business intelligence professionals are needed and companies and schools are seeking to provide the analytics training. Includes a video.
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Augmented Reality in the Workplace
In ReadwriteWeb: Some thoughts about the value of using AR in the workplace. I agree, there is more opportunity there, since at least currently, there tends to...
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Visualize This
FlowingData previews the book: Visualize This. " ... The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics A book by Nathan Yau who writes for FlowingData...
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How to Build Confidence
In the HBR Blog: How to Build Confidence. " ... Very few people succeed in business without a degree of confidence. Yet everyone, from young people in their first...
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Open Data, Predictive Analytics and Visualization
Good piece. Getting all the proper pieces together, making it easy to do, and then being able to interact with multiple sources, kinds and aggregations of data...
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Gamifying Mundane and Innovative Processes
Lauren Carlson contacted me a few days ago to point out some posts in her Software Advice blog. She originally posted a very good introductory note about the idea...
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