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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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Future Consumer
Future Consumer, by Carte Blanche. Includes Arnaud Frade of TNS Group, who I have heard on this subject before. Nothing very new, but some good points to repeat...
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Tesla Predicted Blackberry
Physicist Nikola Tesla is said to have predicted the Blackberry type device over a century ago. Best known for his invention of alternating current, high energy...
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Global Time Sink
Carr in Roughtype discusses the Web as a global time sink, and outlines efforts to go 'cold turkey' on using the Internet. One participant suggests that getting...
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Internet of Things Mashup
The Internet of Things conference starts today in London. Much more about it here. More information at the link, a blog, videos, etc. I will report on aspects...
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Google Voice and Skype
In Computerworld: You can now make calls using Skype from Google Voice. There is also a unified caller ID between the two. Very nice connection that can make both...
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Dis-Loyalty Program
Clever thought: Is The Anti-Loyalty Program A Fun Way To Get Competitor Intelligence? by Evan SchumanA UK coffee retailer had an unusual idea, something he called...
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May/June Analytics
In the May June Analytics Magazine. A number of good articles including analytics in health care, text analytics, supply chain analytics overview. As usual, good...
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New Way to Measure WOM
A new way to measure word-of-mouth marketing from McKinsey that includes exposure and impact.
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Neuromarketing List
A new neuromarketing Twitter list being constructed #neuromarketing Online here. Looks to have some useful follows.
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Frugal and Bandit Innovation
Sammy Haroon in the Global Cognition Blog on Frugal and Bandit Innovation.
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Moile Acts Differently in Store
An intriguing idea at Barnes & Noble. This also can cause people to enter the store, a loyalty play: In StoreFrontBacktalk: " ... For this experiment, Barnes...
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Computational Knowledge Summit
From the Wolfram Blog, a London Computational Knowledge Summit, being held on June 9. Some interesting topics covered:
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Rhymes for Our Times
A long time advertising expert colleague of mine, Norm Levy, who pioneered a number of marketing techniques used broadly in an enterprise I was entrenched in,See...
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Data Mining and Infection Control
A piece from the ACM on infection control using data mining, we were also involved in a project that addressed a similar problem. Good description. ' ... According...
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Cuddle Hormone
Does the 'Cuddle Hormone' make men more empathetic? And where do such focused solutions end up? " ... "This study is the latest of several that suggest that intranasal...
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How Procter is Luring Back Customers
A WSJ piece about how P&G is luring back customers in tough times.-
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Augmenting and Virtualizing the World
In Gigantico, a series of videos being produced by Chris Grayson on this topic. The link here points to the first video, which specifically talks about augmented...
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World's Fair Sparks the Future
Wired article on the technology inspirations of the 1939 World's Fair. The WP post is also interesting. Was before my time, but I was inspired by the 1964/1965,...
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Thank God for Out-of-Stocks
I was at a training meeting at a major manufacturer this week that emphasized retail design to decrease out of stocks. Herb Sorensen sees it differently.
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