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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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Procter Partners with Tobii
P&G is involved in a widespread rollout of understanding non-conscious consumer behavior: " ... Procter & Gamble has partnered with Swedish eye tracking technology...
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Linkless Press Releases
I just reviewed two emails I received about some technology areas I cover. Neither contained a link to the press release content I could send on. I had to ask...
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Embedded Business Rules and Analytics
A topic of continual interest to me. We saw some of this in the enterprise when quantitative analytical methods were linked to sets of 'expert systems' business...
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Tacit Knowledge
During a period when many enterprises were thinking about how to build expert systems that might augment human beings, we learned about the concept of tacit knowledge...
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Online Video Storytelling Study
Participate in the SNCR Study on online video storytelling. ' ... The research study will focus on how organizations are using video to enhance their storytelling...
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Emerging Market Business Models
Colleague Sammy Haroon does a good job writing about new business models for innovation in emerging markets. Making good use of a recent Economist report on the...
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Bringing Augmented Reality to E-Commerce
From a press release by Metaio. The concept is something I have been look at in a number of forms for years. Combining physical spaces with realities that can then...
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Procter on Innovation
An interview with P&G's Melanie Healey on Invading 'Whitespace' via Innovation, in Brandweek. Nothing very new, but good view of their directions.
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Upside of Irrationality
Dan Ariely's new book, The Upside of Irrationality is out. See more at his blog. On the list here.
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Remembering Lee De Forest
A number of posts about the invention of the amplifier by Lee De Forest in 1906. A crucial step in the broad application of electronics. As the Gizmodo article...
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What Google Tells You
In Fortune: If Google Told You to to Jump Off a Cliff, Would You?. A woman sues for literally taking walking advice. As several people have suggested, yes ..in...
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The Value of Being Uncool
Jonathan Baskin spins the interesting case of the mashed-up Pabst Blue Ribbon beer brand. A number of things I did not know about them. Should the brand be cooler...
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Stop Customer Price Fixation
Herb Sorensen pointed us to a paper on how to avoid customer price fixation in the May Harvard Business Review. Good examples and good read, and also read the...
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Cosmic 140
A visualization of the 140 most important entities on Twitter. This reminds me of Stephen Few's recent document on the overuse of circular images for data visualization...
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Twitter as a Gaming Platform
In Readwriteweb: Thinking about Twitter as a gaming platform.I am still convinced that there is real value in overlaying game incentives on serious work. See my...
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Getting Some Privacy with Google
I good piece on what you can do to make it more difficult to invade your privacy via Google tools. ' ... Bottom line? Big Brother knows a whole lot more than...
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Things You Should Know About Statistics
Good overview piece about statistics. This wont tell you how, but will position your knowledge of when stats can be used, and classic errors in their use. A good...
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Pure Data
Do you know Pure Data? A way to analyze multi channel music data. Can it also be used for other kinds of real time data streams? More here, the system's site...
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Numeracy
In the Freakonomics blog, regarding numeracy. Like literacy, it should be valued. From the comments a quote I had not heard: Oscar Wilde said:
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