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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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Payday Timing
Roger Dooley posts: Walmart CEO confirms Payday Timing Effect. Was thought to be common knowledge, but had never seen a specific 'proof' of the effect. Though...
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EmPower Background
Recently I had a meeting with EmPower, custom market and media intelligence services company. Here is an overview of their background and services.
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Kevin Emmons EKR Blog
Newly discovered blog by Kevin Emmons that covers, among other things, neuromarketing. Most recently: Android Phones Using Neuromarketing, where he talks about...
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Open Access Book: Ubiquitous Computing
We already live in a world where there is ubiquitous computing. Yet there are many complex challenges to combine, direct and have ubiquitous computing ideas link...
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The Consumer Still Needs to be Touched
The sense of touch is nicely brought up in this interview with Estee Lauder. While vision is by far the most important sense interacted with in the computer age...
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The Retailer: Supply Chain's Last Mile: Workshop May 6
Reminder: The event is free, but you MUST preregister to attend. Please RSVP to [email protected] to preregister.The Department of Operations & Business Analytics...
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History of the Internet Talk
20th Annual E. Leonard Arnoff Memorial Lecture (Repost) on the Practice of Management Science
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Making Work Visible
New book that looks to be of interest. There seems to have been somewhat less interest in ethonographic research lately after a flurry of interest in the early...
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Finding Experts
In the ACM: It's Who You know Search algorithm designers have in recent years worked out ways for computers to identify experts in any particular area of knowledge...
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New MIT Media Lab Director Interview
We were part of the media lab for a few years and I led a number of tours through the facility. It was good to hear of the changes. Anything that could bring...
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Cell Tower in a Suitcase
AT&T has started to sell what is being called a 'cell tower in a suitcase'. At a cost of between $15-45K, plus monthly fees. We examined something similar for...
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What Marketers Need to Know About QR Barcodes
A good introduction to QR codes by Angie Schottmuller in Search Engine Watch. Pointers to basic considerations, vendors. mobile use and cases. Well done.
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General Mills Experiments with Groupon
Covered broadly in the last few days. The first consumer packaged goods company to try this. This is an example of a manufacturer going around retailers alsoAlso...
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Santa Fe Institute Looks at Behavior via Phones
Stan Dyck, colleague and correspondent, sends this along. The implications for modeling behavior are very great. Quoted from the WSJ below. Nathan Eaglewas mentioned...
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Algorithmic Pricing on Amazon
I love the aspect of automatically building interactions. The first step in artificial intelligence. But caution is always important. Here is an example of building...
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Quick Ways to Liven Up Your Twitter Feed
Ways to liven up twitter feed, with a number of business examples. Fairly good. Though still I think mostly playing to the weaknesses of Twitter itself.
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A Look at Nokia's Collapse
We visited Nokia's innovation group back in the 90s and were very impressed. They were the big disrupters then. Yet today they have been unable to credibly respond...
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Do the Work
The Kindle edition of Steve Pressfield's excellent book: Do the Work is free. " ... Could you be getting in your way of producing great work? Have you started...
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Textbooks Online
An example of bringing textbooks online to Android. This makes much sense. Instructional materials are further useful if they can be connected to other resources...
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