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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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Internet of Things Report
Mckinsey and the Internet of things. ReadwriteWeb provides an overview and link to their report. Good overview.-
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The Year of Social Collaboration
If it is this year or next, I agree. Have been involved in many attempted methods at this. If it wouldn't always also get in the way as well. 2010's Collaboration...
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Engineering the Web's Third Decade
Very insightful piece, a reminder that the Web is very young and evolving. That could create lots of new problems and opportunities for business:From the CACM:...
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'Checking in' to a Box of Tampax for Charity
In Adage: " ... The CauseWorld App Gives Consumers Something Else to Do With Foursquare, Gowalla and Loopt, Would you check in to a box of Tampax like you'd check...
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Perils of Market Research
In Bloomberg Businessweek: What can and cannot be measured with some market research tools. Very good introduction to the inadequacies of the survey. ' ... It-...
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Getting Yelped
In BusinessWeek, A new dynamic, but not any different than newspapers have experienced in the past. Also spaks to the motivation of review/criticisms in general...
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Procter Visualizing Plant Designs
From Consumer Goods Technology: P&G using visualization to optimize plants via fast prototyping. Includes images and vendors involved. Plant design and improvement...
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Geotagging the Future
Daniel Inniss makes some useful comments on Geotagging and business:'Geotagging the Future with Foursquare, Gowalla and TwitterWritten Location based services are...
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In-Store Marketing Measurements
In AdAge: A favorite topic of mine: Shopping Aisles at Cutting Edge of Consumer Research and Tech: They Learned It From You: Marketers Working to Better Understand...
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Relentless Growth of Online Shopping
In FastCompany: The continuing growth of online shopping. Physical stores continuing to link up. -
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SXSW Conference Stream
I notice that there has been more than usual buzz about the SXSW conference (South by Southwest) this year. Its a set of interactive, film, and music festivalsits...
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Valuing Spontaneity
I was surprised a while back by getting a number of birthday wishes in a social networking package from people whose names I did not immediately recognize. I quickly...
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Foursquare for Business
An interesting item on on the Foursquare space about business applications for the social networking game. Includes a number of examples of businesses doing promotions...
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Cognition and Culture
Mind Hacks posts about the Cognition and Culture blog: ' ... covers the territory where culture and psychology meet ... ' . Also points to their reader section...
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When BI Does not Work
Interesting piece on the issues with BI. ' ... When a user of a BI application complains about the application not being useful - something that I hear way too-...
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Richer Geolocation
In MIT Tech Review, Getting More from Location Data: Companies are working to add value to geospatial information. For those already playing in this space much...
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New Thoughts on a Second Life
Its been over a year since I have been to the virtual world Second Life. Before that I was a user, watched in real time as IBM programmers build their own spaces...
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Visualizing the Uses of the Internet
Richard L. James sends along a link to a BBC treemap visualization of the use of the Internet based on Nielsen data. You can float your mouse over the chart totreemap...
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What Smartphone Users Want
Readwriteweb reports on Compete's recent survey of smartphone users. It turns out that what they want most are ads, coupons and location-aware promotions. See the...
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