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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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Shopkick
Another good example of bridging retail and mobile underway:Shopkick bridges the mobile and retail worlds.We are funded by Kleiner Perkins's "iFund" and are the...
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Mobile Choices
Another example of the use of Mobile to engage in-store, note in particular the use of barcode scanning, which is becoming more common. I recently saw severalShopkick...
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Smartphone and Accessories Blog
A correspondent has set up a blog on new Smartphone developments and accessories.
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New Seed Accelerator in Cincinnati
New in the heart of the Midwest, by a former colleague, The Brandery:The Brandery opens it doors: New seed accelerator launches in Cincinnati by Dave KnoxToday...
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Wal-Mart was Wrong to Just Tag Pallets
I just wrote a guest column at one of my favorite retail blogs: Storefrontbacktalk. About how Wal-Mart first tested RFID tags extensively on cases and pallets...
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Acceleration of Addiction
Paul Graham on the acceleration of addiction via technology. Technology gives us more of what we want, so is it accellerating addiction? Pretty clear the answer...
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Wolfram|Alpha Widgets Beta Announced
This is something that is quite interesting I have just received and am starting to explore. Knowledge should be in the form of installable widgets, shouldn'tThe...
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What Do People Want on Smartphones?
In Progressive Grocer: What information do people want on their smartphones. This is mostly a fairly obvious survey, with a much too small sample, that is still...
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Retail Geek
Just discovered through some Twitter messages The Retail Geek Blog. I have acted in that capacity at times. Welcome.
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Mapping the Brain's Networks
Remarkable overview of work by IBM scientists on mapping the major networks in the brain. With some great visualizations. The most comprehensive work yet in understanding...
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Amazon Sells Groceries in the UK
In Businessweek: Amazon sells groceries online in the UK. " ... has launched a grocery website in Britain, offering customers products from companies including...
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Wrong Price Penalties
In StoreFrontBackTalk, an article on some recent large penalties due to incorrect price postings at Sears. You will recall we did a number of studies of Electronic...
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Getting Strategic Transparency
On linking transparency and accountability, in particular about using our increasingly sensor-rich world. in the HBR: " ... Whether morbidly curious or voyeuristically...
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Insects and Robot Design
In the CACM: Insects that inspire robot design. Not a new thing. Useful but sometimes overemphasized. Airplanes are not based on the design of birds. Natural inspired...
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Mind Melds as Measures
From Wired, this is interesting ... with perhaps some lessons to neuromarketing. A stronger mild meld might be the connection between two speakers, rather than...
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Selling Body Wash
A very good Ad-Age case study on changes in body wash sales after the much talked about the very viral old spice videos and related social networking plays. It...
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Stop Trying to Delight Your Customers
We always had the delighting rule drummed into us. This recent HBR piece takes a contrarian view and makes some excellent points. ' ... Two critical findings emerged...
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Microsoft Data Viz Tool
Something new, about to examine: Microsoft Debuts a Data Visualization toolMicrosoft has released a controller for its Silverlight multimedia software that can...
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About Apps
In Design Mind, a short infographic-style piece on the current world of Apps, their history and current world. Instantly out of date, but some very useful and sometimes...
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