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Wal-Mart Brands a Wireless Plan
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Wal-Mart Brands a Wireless Plan

Wal-Mart has branded its own wireless plan. " ... it is introducing the first cell phone plan that uses the chain's own branding, further demonstrating its clout...

Recorded Future Full Text Search
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Recorded Future Full Text Search

I see that the exciting temporal search engine 'Recorded Furture' has added full text search to its premium interface. A very nice ability, which makes you depend...

Hold the In-App Ads
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Hold the In-App Ads

As is obvious, mobile users do not like Ads with their mobile Apps. As in the early days of the Web until now, they will accept them for the right value trade off...

Rise of Social Commerce
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Rise of Social Commerce

Charlene Li, always interesting, on the what she calls the rise of social commerce. Which will be talked about at an upcoming meeting.

Right vs Left Brain
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Right vs Left Brain

At the enterprise a dozen years ago there was much talk about the difference between left and right brains, engineering and design minds. The specifics of the 'sided...

Cute Geographic Maps
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Cute Geographic Maps

Yet another example of a geographic display with relatively little relationship between the geographic structure and the data itself. As I have said before, these...

Graph Networks for Predictive Analytics
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Graph Networks for Predictive Analytics

Interesting thought here. We used graph network methods for years to understand and optimize supply chains. It is also useful because it can show the relationship...

David Sibbet's Book Launch
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David Sibbet's Book Launch

I have mentioned it here before ... Colleague David Sibbet's new and provocative book: Visual Meetings. He video posts about his book launch. A descriptive video...

Conference App
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Conference App

Long-time correspondent Sy Truong and his company Meta-Xceed, Inc. have developed an IPhone App for the upcoming SAS Global Forum 2011 Conference. This is an interesting...

Barcode Hero Addictive Shoppng Game
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Barcode Hero Addictive Shoppng Game

Including games into arduous or boring tasks is a good idea, but in a few examples I have seen, has not worked well. Just starting to take a look at this example...

A Glucose Meter App for the Android
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A Glucose Meter App for the Android

Via Mark Montgomery of KYield: An example of Smartphone mHealth: A standard meter connected the Android smartphone via a bluetooth connection. Includes a video...

Neuromarketing: Fantasy or the Future
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Neuromarketing: Fantasy or the Future

In Adage: Is Neuromarketing a Fantasy or the Future? It Could Give Marketers an Edge, but Questions Remain About Effectiveness and EthicsNeuromarketing, and the...

Facebook Use Exceeds Google
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Facebook Use Exceeds Google

An interesting result from Comscore: U.S. Web surfers are spending more time socializing on Facebook than searching with Google, according to new data from researchers...

SAP EcoHub
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SAP EcoHub

SAP has put out what they call the SAP EcoHub Newsletter. You can dive deep and find lots of interesting things there, but I wish they were clearer about what EcoHub...

Publishing Decisions
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Publishing Decisions

In ReadwriteWeb some interesting questions are posed about how large, complex reference books will, or will not be physically published in the future. The Oxford...

ANOVA Testing in Excel
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ANOVA Testing in Excel

Did not know you could do Analysis of Variance, ANOVA, stat testing in Excel, but here is an outline of how to do it. Good explanation of the method and it's uses...

Neuromarketing Movies
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Neuromarketing Movies

In Gizmodo, an article about how a number are using neuromarketing methods to predict how people react to movies. In particular the use of fMRI methods. It is very...

John Cleese on Creativity
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John Cleese on Creativity

Some of you may have followed John Cleese's business videos. Here is new video excerpt on creativity. His presentations are always fun. From Presentation Zen: ...

Videos from KYield
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Videos from KYield

Mark Montgomery of Kyield has added some video clips, linked to below, to explain his impressive plans to support the knwoledge worker. "Videos

Dashboard Solutions: Gartner Research
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Dashboard Solutions: Gartner Research

Via IBM/Cognos. Registration required, access here. Despite some of the criticism of the format, I think that the use of dashboard as a modular component of business...
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