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Reusable Baggage Tags
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Reusable Baggage Tags

Baggage tags were a long time potential application for RFID .. here is a new example.Reusable Electronic Baggage Tag Powered by RFIDVanguard ID Systems' View Tag...

Adverts in Your Head
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Adverts in Your Head

A fairly good article in CNN on Neuromarketing.  They quote Roger Dooley: "the biggest development that I hope we see is some solid research validating neuromarketing...

Who Owns Personal Data?
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Who Owns Personal Data?

Thinking about who owns personal data.

Tableau 6 Includes What-If Modeling
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Tableau 6 Includes What-If Modeling

The newest verison of Tableau 6, now in beta, has the ability to create variables for use in your analysis. We call these parameters, and they open up new possibilities...

Stealing Your Reality
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Stealing Your Reality

Can your behavior on social netowrking sites be stolen and your 'reality' stolen?  I know that reality can be augmented, even replaced by being made virtual, but...

Tragedy of the Commons
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Tragedy of the Commons

I looked up the concept of 'Tragedy of the Commons' concept recently to get additional historical information about the topic. .   Found that the Wikipedia has....

Data Sharing Between CPG and Retail
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Data Sharing Between CPG and Retail

Data sharing between retailers and manufacturers have been done for a long time.   Here is an example of the process between Food Lion and Kraft.

Inside the Mind of the Shopper
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Inside the Mind of the Shopper

I have had a chance to re-examine Herb Sorensen's book from last year, and his supporting site that contains articles about some of the concepts included. Also,...

LinkedIn's New Lab
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LinkedIn's New Lab

ReadwriteWeb writes about Linkedn's new lab.  Says it has meager pickings for the average user. LinkedIn  is a resume mill that is no longer possible to ignore. ...

Google Creative Labs
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Google Creative Labs

A slideshow from Google Creative Labs. " ...   interesting HTML5 apps, iPhone apps, visualization tools, 3D projections, art projects, creative YouTube videos,...

Store Brands Here to Stay
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Store Brands Here to Stay

Overview of Deloitte study on store brands in Progressive Grocer:  " ... In a Deloitte study, 80% of consumer respondents said they think most store brands are...

Where do Innovations Come From?
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Where do Innovations Come From?

The hive mind say Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson.   Maybe they are nurtured (or not) that way, but all the really good and remarkable ideas I have seen have come...

Procrastination
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Procrastination

James Surowiecki in the New Yorker: What does procrastination tell us about ourselves?  Orin Kerr in Volokh follows with the suggestion that  procrastinationmay...

Tell Them Where to Go in Retail
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Tell Them Where to Go in Retail

Click through to see the whole thing: Tell 'em Where to Go; Tell 'em Which to Buy!(The "Path-to-Purchase" Ought to Be a U-Turn)September 30, 2010 - by Herb Sorensen...

Posterous gets an App
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Posterous gets an App

In ReadwriteWeb:  The minimalist blogging platform called Posterous is something I am experimenting with for getting blogging into the hand of clients.  They now...

In-Facility Navigation
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In-Facility Navigation

In the NYT (May require registration):  Finding Your Way Through the Mall or the Airport, With a Cellphone Map.  Not a very new idea, but a reasonable overview...

Food Lion Testing
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Food Lion Testing

In Supermarket News, Bloom's Food Lion is testing a 3GTV television network in store.  " ... will examine the best way to utilize video and other digital media...

AnalyticBridge
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AnalyticBridge

I see that AnalyticBridge has a newly designed web site. Nicely done.   They position themselves as the social network for analytics professionals.

Google Promotes the Fourth Screen
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Google Promotes the Fourth Screen

According to this article and a number of others there are four screens that Google would like to get hold of:The TV, the Computer, the Mobile Phone .... and the...

Unilever Becoming Demand Driven
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Unilever Becoming Demand Driven

Not an unusual thing these days:Unilever
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