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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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Metadata Management
From TDWI: Cost Justification for Metadata Management. " ... Pinning a dollar value or other metric to metadata
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Social Tech Retail Value.
An interesting early experiment with a restaurant using social technology. Did McDonald's get a 33% increase in foot traffic from Foursquare? ReadWriteWeb looks...
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Google Scribe
This Google writing capability fills in phrases for you. Generally a reasonable idea, but can also be annoying unless you are used to it. -
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Liespotting
An interesting article on detecting lies in conversations. The article makes the case that there is currently an epidemic of deception. Everyone wants to know...
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Billion in Digital Book Sales
Barnes & Noble expects to have a billion dollars in digital book sales by 2013. Another example of the changes from paper to digital format. Get your readers ready...
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Myths and Truths About Innovation
Mark Montgomery of Kyield posts on Myths and Truths about Innovation. Something he has been working on for some time. " ... In my daily filtering of news and intelligence...
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Mapping Remarkable Relationships
Colleague Julie Anixter video on her new Youtube presence:On Mapping Remarkable Relationships: Four Seasons The essence of every great customer experience is a...
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Social Media Campaigns
In Mashable, a good set of case studies of social media campaigns. " ... A great social marketing campaign can be hard to describe; sometimes it's better just...
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Data Mining in Financial Industry
Banks using data mining to answer marketing questions. Very large quantities of data are becoming available and mining methods are obvious approaches to synthesize...
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Wolfram Alpha Includes US Sales Data
I see that Wolfram Alpha has now included some US retail sales data. I admit it has been some time since I have played with WA. I much like the interface, which...
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The Flow Game
I was reminded of the Flow game in Daniel H. Pink's recent book: Drive: The Surprising Truth about what Motivates Us. (P. 118) by Jenova Chen and based on Csikszentmihalyi's...
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Big Data
Infoworld on the value of what is being called big data. Good piece for the enterprise to understand the implications of such data stores: " ... several pharmaceutical...
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Sound and Taste
We did research on a number of sensory interactions in retail. In an interesting study, Unilever looks at the interaction of taste and sound. Have not seen a study...
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Disruptive Innovations in Retail Sector
From Sammy Haroon's innovation blog:Dis-ruptive Innovations - Technology in Retail Investment Sector The Financial Times published a well thought through analysis...
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Specialized GMail Statistics
I have done some specialized statistics macros for my Gmail conversations, and now just discover a report on a Chrome extension that does just that. Very nice to...
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Gender Discrimination in Graduate School
The numbers show clear gender discrimination in US Graduate school attendance. We are awaiting broad press coverage of this problem, government studies and remedial...
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Decluttering the Organization
This Harvard Business Review View reminds me of experiences we had during the artificial intelligence days in the early 90s ... When we brought up the reasoning...
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Shoppers Stick to their Lists?
Reported in Mediapost: This seems to be contrary to our own experiences, even overstating how many people actually make lists. Its good to see more research coming...
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Enabled Surfaces
We talked to several office furniture and space manufacturers and they were all looking at the possibility of making work surfaces, walls and even floors into interactive...
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