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Live Auction
From The Eponymous Pickle

Live Auction

I posted a while back that I have been helping Cowans, an Auction house. There is a live auction on Decor going on now that you can track via smartphone. The IPhone...

Sensors on Broadway
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sensors on Broadway

In ReadWriteWeb: An intriguing use of RFID tags to determine and improve the acoustical characteristics of live performances. Unusual application that could have...

Gamers Beat Algorithms
From The Eponymous Pickle

Gamers Beat Algorithms

It has been suggested that gaming and the human senses can perform better than analytical algorithms. Here is an example in determining protein structures. We...

Mosaic Theory of Search
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mosaic Theory of Search

Have been involved in the use of a number of technologies like GPS and RFID which can determine the location of someone in a context. A colleague send me a note...

Can Social Save Media?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Can Social Save Media?

Talk from Supernova: Moderators are Wharton's Peter Fader and Eric Barlow ... Via WIMI: Wharton Interactive Media Initiative.

Chrome Calling Phone
From The Eponymous Pickle

Chrome Calling Phone

I like this idea, sending multimedia things to your phone. I have often been in this fix. Need to get things to my phone and ready to go. Android-only according...

Visual Meetings!
From The Eponymous Pickle

Visual Meetings!

Newly brought to my attention, we used David's methods to do group productivity sessions. Always very imppressive. I recognize parts of the book as some of the...

Best Practices
From The Eponymous Pickle

Best Practices

Interesting thoughts about the development and use of best practices, a common thing in the enterprise. Best practices work under a set of given contexts.

How to Build a Mind
From The Eponymous Pickle

How to Build a Mind

Still waiting for some of the required details for reverse-engineering. I am no neuroscientist, but even I can see that all the blueprints are not ready yet. "...

Smartphones and Retailers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smartphones and Retailers

The possibilities of having shoppers use their own devices to get information to help them understand their options has existed for some time. But now shoppersearly...

Robot Roadmap
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robot Roadmap

In the CACM, A roadmap for the robotic future. " ... The EU-funded CARE project (Coordination Action for Robotics in Europe), coordinated by Rainer Bischoff and...

How Many Books Are There?
From The Eponymous Pickle

How Many Books Are There?

I am a book and library nut. A nice piece by Google that takes a cut at the 'N' question about books. Along the way you learn quite a bit about books and how...

Saffron Associative Experience Management
From The Eponymous Pickle

Saffron Associative Experience Management

I just received a note announcing Saffron Technologies forthcoming book: Making Memories, Applying Neuron-inspired Associative Memories to National, Business and...

Forbes Requires its Reporters to Blog
From The Eponymous Pickle

Forbes Requires its Reporters to Blog

Via Paul Gillin ... Forbes is requiring its reporters to blog and is opening a new blog. Will newspapers survive by morphing into blogs? That seems to be be happening...

Book Review: Hamlet's Blackberry
From The Eponymous Pickle

Book Review: Hamlet's Blackberry

Just completed the recently released: Hamlet's BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age by William Powers. The link includes...

How Eye Tracking is Changing the Web
From The Eponymous Pickle

How Eye Tracking is Changing the Web

Good intro piece in ReadWriteWeb. Not only about tracking in a passive sense to see where people are looking, but also as a means to interact with the web. Have...

I-Room Virtual Space for Interaction
From The Eponymous Pickle

I-Room Virtual Space for Interaction

In the current IEEE Computer Intelligence Systems. An overview of a collaborative space to support sensory decisions. Quite interesting because it includes thein...

Eyeballs Out
From The Eponymous Pickle

Eyeballs Out

I just read the preprint of colleague Donna Sturgess' new book: Eyeballs Out: How To Step Into Another World, Discover New Ideas, and Make Your Business Thrive....

Branded Storytelling Online
From The Eponymous Pickle

Branded Storytelling Online

Storytelling should work. yes, but it does depend on the story. AdAge presents a number of case studies that worked, and others that did not. An instrutive set...

Saffron Technologies Overview
From The Eponymous Pickle

Saffron Technologies Overview

A good explanatory post on associative memory vendor Saffron Technology ... which I have followed for some time. Will continue to track this impressive effort.
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