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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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Big Company IT at NRF
Storefrontbacktalk reports on a number of big company IT leaders at NRF and their innovation views.
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Packing Intelligence in a Tweet
James Kobielus looking at the business intelligence value of Twitter. I still see Twitter as an alert leading to more information. Sometimes all of the intelligence...
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Analytics for Humanitarian Logistics
Just added to Analytics Magazine, a short article and podcast on the use of logistics analytics in the Haiti earthquake. Linked to the Center for Humanitarian Logistics...
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Brand Loyalty and Brand
Walter Riker, colleague at Procter, writes in Curious Voyager about brand loyalty being killed by the brand.
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Making Food While You Watch
Laurence Hayward, of the Venture Lab sends along a report from their newsletter about a number of new ideas that manufacture fresh food concepts in stores while...
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Overzealous Spam Filter Found
I just noticed that the blog spam filter has been classifying too many messages as spam and that several useful comments had been blocked. I approved the comments...
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Procter Underutilizes Scale
AdAge interview with ' ... Bob McDonald, CEO of Procter & Gamble, said the size of the company is not a disadvantage, as many analysts believe. "Size doesn't matter...
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Checking in to Retail SmartPhone Potential
Since my early days in retail innovation centers I have been thinking about how the inevitable success of location-aware smart phones can directly introduce the...
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Reading and Blogging the NYT
Its inevitable. Rumors abound on the NYT going behind a pay wall. Althouse has some good comments, as a blogger, on the use of linking central news sources. You...
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More Internet of Things
New SmartPhone developments could fundamentally change the nature of shopping. In ReadWriteWeb ' ... a series called Mobile Web Meets Internet of Things this week...
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Comparing the GDP of EU and US States
A most interesting comparison of the per capita GDP of US States versus EU Countries. Via economist Mark J. Perry.
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Sarcasm Punctuation Mark
It seems like a futile effort, but a firm has patented and now sells a sarcasm punctuation mark, hoping to profit from all of that misunderstanding in text andEsperanto...
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Putting Shopper Marketing in Hands of Shopper
Joel Rubinson of ARF on Putting Marketing in the Hands of the Shopper, about Modiv's in aisle scanning system in use at Stop&Shop and being shown at NRF. Recall...
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Procter to Test Online Store
Note also P&G's extensive use of contextual innovation centers to understand the consumer, in the WSJ: Procter & Gamble to Test Online Store to Study Buying Habits...
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Shoppers Want more Interactivity
Not a surprising result, consumers want more interactivity from retailers: ' ... For example, 75 percent of those surveyed want their mobile phones to tell them...
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Functional Food Advances
Advances in Soy protein chemistry seem to indicate increased abilty to release functional ingredients slowly. Article in FoodNavigator.
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Arithmetic Stifles Creativity
Long division no longer taught, stifles student creativity. Make sure your batteries are fresh. ' ...Only 57% of college freshman at the University of Washington...
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Google Docs to Host All File Types
In an interesting development Google says it will host all file types up to 250 MB in size. Sharing large files is always a problem. This will surely put some...
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Hive Thinking
Jaron Lanier in the NYT. We were introduced to him and his Virtual Reality work years ago at the Institute for the Future. Some good points in the article, though...
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