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Shopper Centric Analytics Advances
From The Eponymous Pickle

Shopper Centric Analytics Advances

In AdAge:' ...A Prescription for Resuscitating Growth for CPG CompaniesAdvances in Data, Insights, Analytics and Technology Enable a Personalized Shopper-Marketing...

Mypaint: Drawing With No Talent
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mypaint: Drawing With No Talent

A newly discovered drawing system called Mypaint for freehand images, does not make you a graphics artist, but a nice start. Via Downloadsquad.

IPhone in Trouble?
From The Eponymous Pickle

IPhone in Trouble?

Is the IPhone in trouble because its business model is not open enough? You can build some clever things that win at first, but will they survive when challenged...

Auctioning Lincoln History
From The Eponymous Pickle

Auctioning Lincoln History

This blog has a number of times covered auction technologies. This resulted from a number of studies of auction processes inside the enterprise. Recently I have...

Digitizing the First Moment of Truth
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digitizing the First Moment of Truth

Former P&Ger Randall Beard in his Marketing with Impact Blog about digitization of the first-moment-of-truth, the interaction of shopper and store at the shelf....

Mapping Initiatives via Google and Bing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mapping Initiatives via Google and Bing

An intriguing race between major search engine providers, using health data:Bing, Google Offering Dueling

Ready for Mobile Video Chat?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ready for Mobile Video Chat?

How much does the ready and easy availability of video chat add to the value of business communications? Some rumors about that this will be the new ingredientA...

Rise of the Replicators
From The Eponymous Pickle

Rise of the Replicators

We met MIT's Neil Gershenfeld and read his book: When Things Start to Think. Much enjoyed, but I did wonder about how hard it would be to implement what he wasNew...

Reporting vs Blogging
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reporting vs Blogging

Walter Riker writes about Reporting vs Blogging in his Ease of Blogging blog. Walter's blog is a great resource in this space, and he is also a first rate teacher...

Sony Lifelogging Glasses
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sony Lifelogging Glasses

Via Walter Riker: Sony demonstrates lifelogging glasses. Have been looking at eyetracking approaches lately. In the Enterprise we examined related methods for delivering...

Semantic Publishing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Semantic Publishing

From IEEE Inteligent Systems: The Semantic Web: From Proteins to Fairytales: Directions in Semantic PublishingAnita de WaardIf computers are to help us process...

Focus on the Objectives of Business Intelligence
From The Eponymous Pickle

Focus on the Objectives of Business Intelligence

Richard Herschel looks at the various definitions of BI and tries to make sense of how it relates to the objectives we should be seeking. Well done. He proposes...

Links as a Distraction
From The Eponymous Pickle

Links as a Distraction

A discussion of whether including links in writing is a good idea. Have always thought the very purpose of being on the web is to include links to supporting material...

Tour Through a Visualization Zoo
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tour Through a Visualization Zoo

From CACM: A Tour Through the Visualization Zoo, A survey of powerful visualization techniques, from the obvious to the obscure... The goal of visualization is.I...

Zakta Search
From The Eponymous Pickle

Zakta Search

Once more I would like to suggest that you take a look at Zakta. Constructed by some very smart developers I know. Its been updated now a number of times. An...

Medical Augmented Reality
From The Eponymous Pickle

Medical Augmented Reality

Some great examples of medical augmented reality in ReadWriteWeb. Via obdervant colleague Stan Dyck. It brings up the interesting idea of using AR to highlight...

Scent of a Steak
From The Eponymous Pickle

Scent of a Steak

A short piece about a company emitting the scent of a steak from a billboard. At the Innovation Centers we experimented extensively with targeted in-store scent...

Personalizing Discounts at Sams
From The Eponymous Pickle

Personalizing Discounts at Sams

An obvious but still rare play in the world of loyalty. Is this the way that loyalty programs will evolve? " ... Wal-Mart warehouse chain Sam's Club has introduced...

Wal-Mart's Supply Chain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart's Supply Chain

Good overview post on Wal-Mart's supply chain practices from Evan Schuman's StoreFrontBacktalk.

Google Face Recognition Methods
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Face Recognition Methods

Some interesting new methodologies being debated by Google. Recognition of images is an area I have worked on for a number of years.
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