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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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Can you Bulletize that?
This is fairly old, but I was reminded of it by a colleague: Some Problems in the world are not Bullet-izable. And Tufte's classic comments on the subject.
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RFID Reads from a Distance
Storefrontbacktalk reports about a passive RFID tag read from a distance of 217 feet, presented at the recent DEFCON conference. The comments debate if it was...
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Micro Drones at Google
Google ordering micro drones. For filling in the details on streetview? Don't swat that fly, could be Google getting data.
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Furniture Mass Customization
I have just been looking at at some examples of mass customization. Most appear to be in the clothing area. Here is another, a startup in the mass customization...
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Talking Washers and Dryers
In BWeek, More on work by Kenmore having appliances report their maintenance issues remotely. We experimented with a number of these appliances in the innovation...
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Procter and Safe Drinking Water
Have followed P&G's safe drinking water for children effort in this blog for some time. Now they are rolling out a new effort featuring female bloggers.
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Innovation is not Creativity
In the HBR Blog: by Vijay Govindarajan ' ... We like to think of an organization's capacity for innovation as creativity multiplied by execution. We use "multiplication"...
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Are Marketers Spying on You Online?
A very good little AdAge article that discusses what marketers know and what they don't know about you online. I also recommend reading the comments to the article...
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Vinimaya Virtual Supplier Network
I have now had a couple of in-depth conversations with the local company Vinimaya. Very impressive and particularly simple and cost effective solutions to company...
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Tesco Mobile Shopping App
In the UK MarketingWeek. Tesco is always innovative. In particular interesting is their motivation for bypassing some more popular smartphone platforms:"Tesco...
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Airline Booking Augmented Reality
Metaio sends along this simple application of augmented reality in travel services: ' .. The air transport IT specialist, SITA and Malaysia Airlines have developed...
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Mass Customization Friday
An interesting mass customization event will be held today on Facebook. They are described at the link. " ... 20 startups in the mass customization space will...
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Google Small Business Blog
Just started up, the Google Small Business Blog. " ... a central hub that brings together all the information about our products, features and projects of specific...
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Crowd Wisdom in Small Business
A colleage recently talk to me about projects we had proposed using crowd wisdom. A good NYT article on the use of 'Wisdom of the Crowd' plays, broadly defined...
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Gulf Spill's Lessons for Robotics
In IEEE Spectrum: A number of strategic and tactical lessons learned for robotics during the Gulf spill.
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Ferrari Quits Barcode Logo
It was one of the major claims in Martin Lindstrom's book: Buyology that the tobacco industry was using subliminal triggers in ads, even when explicit brand logos...
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Google Drops Wave
In a surprising development Google has decided to drop its Wave social-collaborative capability by year's end. Some of the functionality will be included in other...
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Context Aware Computing
In the August IEEE Computer an issue devoted to Context Aware Computing. Including a good video. So what is it and why does it matter far beyond just your location...
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AisleBuyer
Just brought to my attention via Andrew Paradies. AisleBuyer A Smartphone based engagement and convenience enhancement idea for retail. An idea we explored atheir...
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