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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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Antikythera Mechanism in Legos
A very sharp correspondent points me to the post on the fastcodesign site about building a model of the Antikythera mechanism using legos. Watch an Apple Engineer...
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Self Service Business Intelligence
ComputerWorld article on self service business intelligence. Low cost, easy to use tools are becoming more common. " ... It's all about helping business users...
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An RFID Turntable
The well known design company IDEO, who helped us construct innovation spaces, has designed a turntable (remember those?) style platform that reads a card withExplained...
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Ant Algorithms
New work on the use of biologically inspired methods. Here the problem is finding shortest paths in busy networks. The inspiration is how ants can find theirReport...
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HP Gives up on BI
In an intriguing development HP has backed off of their business intelligence and analytics efforts. I have visited HP labs a number of times and was always impressed...
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Social Media Resources
A good list of social media resources from Mashable. Good for those that want to expand their understanding of social methods.
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Signals Online
Intriguing essay in Batelle's Searchblog: Signal, Curation, Discovery. On a number of themes in the search industry, the current players and directions being explored...
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Generated QR codes from Google
Its pretty old news that Google has it's own URL shortener. called goo.gl It is perhaps also old news that you can also use this shortener to create a 2-D QR...
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Carbonara: the Possibilities Behind Exotic Carbon Structures
I got late to this article in the Futurist, which extols the continuing possibilities, boosted by discoveries in nanotechnology, and the annoying delays in their...
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Decision Analysis Software Survey
A little late, but OR/MS does an excellent survey of decision analysis software every year. If you are interested in the topic, take a look here. " ... Dennis...
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The Open Library
There are millions of books free for the e-reading out there. Most pay reading services include them as well for free. Now the Open Library has introduced a new...
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Copying and Pasting Your Interests
I wrote about Tynt before, but this article made it clearer about what it is doing ... Find out more about what people really care about.
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Marketing in China's Digital Age
In Knowledge@Wharton:Marketing in China's Digital Age: How to Win Customers' Hearts?Companies worldwide are devoting more of their marketing budgets to digital...
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Redrawing Country Regions Using Phone Calls
An interesting proposal in the BBC that the social connections evidenced by phone calls could be used to redraw the map of the UK. " ... Regional boundaries are...
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Brands and Social Media
In Progressive Grocer: People are more inclined to purchase social media advertised brands.
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Numbers Rule Your World
I have not read the Numbers Rule Your World book yet, but here is the associated blog. Covers lots of interesting related topics.
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Mobile Strategy a Must for Retailers
Obvious but good piece in Computerworld. The most savvy players in retail already understand it. As shoppers are armed with sensors, web connectivity, universal...
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Linkedin and Professional Presence
In Adage: Agree to the basic premise. There should be a clear distinction between personal presence and professional interaction. Muddling the two together hurts...
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Marketing Hub Reports first Win
In the local press: the establishment of Cincinnati, Ohio as a marketing hub moves ahead with the movement of an agency here.
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