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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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Senior Execs Should Know What Metadata Means
Good piece in SASCom Voices (Read it all at the link): ' ...
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P&G Reopens Egypt Plants
Good to see them reopening, after being closed for two weeks, they supply other demand in the middle east. More.
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More Video Carts
A report on the use of a video cart that amuses children with videos while pitching products to the shopper based on their location. We looked at this idea briefly...
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New in Electronic Shelf Labels
The Venture Lab reports on funding work they are doing with an Electronic Shelf Label (ESL) startup called Tagnetics. I had worked with the predecessor of this...
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Dan Ariely in Praise of the Handshake
Good piece by Dan Ariely formerly posted in the HBR. The implications of contracts versus handshakes.
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Bias Against Creatives
Is there a bias against the quirkily creative, diversity in thinking, innovation because it does not fit into the enterprise narrative? I have seen it. More....
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Skill Sets for Information Worker
In Information Management: An evolving set of skills for the information worker. In today
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Hummingbirds
A fully operational, hummingbird-like operational aircraft.: " ... The hand-made prototype aircraft has a wingspan of 16 centimeters (6.5 inches) tip-to-tip and...
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Comparing Watson the the Human Brain
Short, but mostly non technical CW article on the Jeopardy-Watson IBM supercomputer, comparing at least its organizational and logical size to the human brain. ...
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Revealing all the Ingredients
More examples of increasingly providing more detailed information about products:Clorox Reveals Chemicals You've Been Dumping on Your Floors, Counters, Commodes...
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Making Fan Pages More Effective
Jan Ochs on setting up a Facebook fan page and making it more effective. Useful ideas.
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Kraft Advanced in-store Kiosks
I have not seen much about advanced kiosks of late. We experimented with them in labs and stores. The additional capability of having a kiosk or display 'look...
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Media in the Drivers Seat
In Adage ... while platforms can impress people, get them looking, content has always been king: Call It a Comeback: Media to Thrive in World of New Devices, Technologies...
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Google Improves Social Search Tool
Google has changed its social searches so that when you are logged in with your Google account you will get interleaved results that include hits from your ownMuch...
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Disrupting Your Industry
I am in the midst of a consulting project where it looks like it will be very hard to disrupt the industry. Most everything has been done already. All the slack...
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On Backups
Good defensive computing CW piece on backups, what they are and what they are not and how to make sure you don't lose really important things.
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Catalog for Language Resources
More resources that can help you do research with languages: " ... It has just become a whole lot easier to search the world's language archives. The new OLAC Language...
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Ramping Up Shopper Marketing
Good overview article from Wharton which provides a statement of the direction of what we used to call merchandising: " ... Shopper marketing is gaining popularity...
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Sands Research Superbowl Ad Ranking
Sands Research has posted their most recent super bowl ad ranking information, based on their unique neuro marketing methods. They have also included eye tracking...
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