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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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Simplicity is King
Simplicity is the mother of adoption, by Tim McLaughlin. Could not agree more.-
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Smartphone Scanning: Beyond Barcodes
I have been following and testing uses of smartphones as sensors. The obvious connection is using the ubiquitous barcodes to identify things in their environments...
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Brain Systems behind General Intelligence
In Science Daily, good overview of work at Caltech on the brain systems that affect general intelligence. The study shows that general intelligence is not localized...
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Brands Using Facebook
In Adage, a good number of examples of major brands using Facebook. ' ... "What Facebook does is connect people into communities," said an official with P&G, which...
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Addictive Sounds
Fast Company article on addictive sounds. I agree with a number of commenters who say that these sounds are US sounds and not global. Some of the thoughts included...
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Foursquare Signs Deal with Zagat
An interesting development which links the game like approach of Foursquare with restaurant rating service Zagat. I am still skeptical since there is no assurance...
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Superbowl Neuromarketing Report
In their February newsletter Sands Research is offering their report on their yearly report of superbowl ads. ' .. Each year, the Sands Research team prepares.They...
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Coffee and the Artificial Nose
Short piece on coffee and the artificial nose. It was an area that we examined closely and tried to understand from both linking to the real world world of theon...
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Time vs Psychological Value of Money
Good piece by Jim Benson. About the Psychological vs the Time value of money, and how to leverage that effect.
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Procter Product Lifecycle Management
From Consumer Goods Mag: P&G Optimizes Packaging and Artwork Initiatives Procter & Gamble (P&G) extends the scope of its V6 PLM implementation to incorporate global...
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Team Kanban
Jerry Michalski is hosting a conference talk on Monday February 22, 2010 at 1:30 PM EST. Dial-in Number: 1-270-400-1500 Participant Access Code: 778778 ... ItsPersonal...
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You are not a Gadget
Finished reading Jaron Lanier's You are not a Gadget: A Manifesto. (The Amazon link has a look-inside-the-book and a good Q&A with Lanier). We met Lanier, a pioneer...
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Global Internet Usage Usage Stats
Good compilation of Global Internet usage statistics.-
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Blogging to Drive Business
After a number of warnings following around blogging be passe lately, its good to see a new book on blogging and business ... '" ... From Eric Butow and Rebecca...
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Time on Advertising Sounds
A Time Mag article: Now Hear This. A good piece, on sounds in advertising, see also my previous post on Martin Lindstrom and Buyology Inc's work in this area.
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Talking Smartphone Tags
I happened on a demonstration of Talking Tag by Air Arts via Ven Cheva while I was in Chicago yesterday. A clever and simple idea that attaches an audio track (or...
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New Products from Procter
From the WSJ: Expect a flurry of new products from P&G: ' Robert McDonald, CEO of Procter & Gamble, said the company's growth strategies "are starting to work"...
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World's Most Addictive Sounds Discovered
From Martin Lindstrom: Analyzing sounds" ... The article probes the results of a new 9-month study conducted by the New York Buyology Inc., team, in partnership...
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Data and Dating
Steve King reports on Data and Dating in Small Biz Labs. The topic has always been of interest to me. I worked with some matching algorithms in the enterprise,...
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