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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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Coke's High Tech Mixing Machine
Late stage differentiation of Coca Cola products. ' ... Coke's new Freestyle machine is housed in a curved metal shell created by the designers of Ferrari race...
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FMI Phone App
In a clever development this week's FMI (Food Marketing Institute) 2010 conference has constructed a free smartphone application supporting the event. I may be...
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Local Inventory NoWhere Close
In a previous post there was a mention of local inventory search, knowing where the inventory of a product may reside. Storefrontbacktalk has a post that suggests...
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Japanese Brainwave Initiative
An interesting project out of Japan. I remember well the Japanese AI initiative, which led to some crucial results in robotics. Though the generalized Japanese...
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How Brands Grow: First Read
Correspondent Byron Sharp, Professor at the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute, University of South Australia, has a new book: How Brands Grow: What Marketers Don't Know....
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Virtual Reality as Pain Relief
The use of games and virtual reality for pain relief. From CACM.
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Shopping at the Mall of the Future
In Retail Traffic a fairly good exploratory look at shopping in the next decade. Overplays, yes, but reasonable speculative views based on existing technologies...
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Young and Affluent Moving to Private Label
In MediaPost, Nielsen shows data that the young and affluent are moving towards increasingly better and more readily available private label offerings.
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The Details of URLs
Have you noticed how much longer URLs have been getting? Its been a trend that has been going on for years. Have you wondered what all those things in URL mean...
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Text Analytics
Good non technical overview of text analytics, often called unstructured data, text is not of course unstructured, but has the complex structure of language. That...
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Emotional Design
Correspondent Mark Capper on What is emotional design?. Relates to other non conscious elements of emotion.
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Kraft and Coke Move to IVend
Kraft and Coke showcases touch screen vending machines. It is suggested that their machine design comes from the IPhone. Not sure I buy that
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Writing a To-Do List
On the effective use of a to-do list, in Fast Company.
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Chrome is Still Here
I have been using the Google Chrome browser off and on since it has come out. Just recently I made it a standard book mark. It has improved consistently overOthers...
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Archiving Those Little Bits
Former P&Ger Kevin Roberts now Saatchi CEO on the Library of Congress Twitter archive. Via Richard James. Have written about this a few times, the permanent archive...
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Getting Rid of Paper Receipts
Why have we not rid ourselves of paper receipts? In Storefrontbacktalk.
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Art of the Twitter Pitch
Some good if sometimes obvious comments about the idea of the Twitter Pitch. Common sense ideas about how to use 140 characters to convince someone of something...
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Using Social Media to Complain
An instructive example of consumers using social media to complain:Parents Use Social Media to Sound Off on J&J RecallMany Take to Blogs, Facebook, Twitter to Complain...
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