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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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Inner CEO
Alan Cox posts a review of his book: Your Innner CEO, which I recall being a good read. His unusual blog is also worth a look.
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Net Neutrality and Tech Implications
In E-Commerce Times, an interesting view of net neutrality, in particular how ultimately other devices in the consumers home, like the set-top-box, will start to...
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Global Economy as Physics problem.
Worth a look, though I have been weary of such simplifications since the Club of Rome.
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Google Tool Predicts Browser View
A new Google tool predicts how much of a page will be visible to visitors on entering a site, before they scroll. This would be useful to understand the operational...
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Corkboard Database
A really simple idea, Spaaze.com, resting almost entirely on its metaphor, an infinite corkboard display. More about it.
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Mirrors in the Brain
In the midst of reading Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Interconnect With Others, by Marco Iacoboni. A non-technical book about mirror neurons, which...
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Google Pushes 2D Barcodes
From Storefrontbacktalk: ' ... This week, Google said it was trying to breathe life into these barcodes by mailing 200,000 2D barcode stickers to small businesses...
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Kroger Links Loyalty to Wireless Minutes
Retailers are starting to do more clever things with loyalty programs: ' ... The Kroger Co. is rolling out what it says is a first-of-its-kind loyalty program that...
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New at Junaio
I recently mentioned Junaio and its IPhone App. A good example of the current state of 'augmented reality', as the term suggests its a means of adding useful information...
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Ray Kurzweil's Future
Ray Kurzweil, noted technologist and futurist, predicts how technology will change us by 2020.-
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Coupon Chief
I recently got a note from Couponchief.com, which lets you search for coupons for online purchase. They write: ' ... Coupon Chief is one of the fastest growing....
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Solar Goose: Solar Lighting Concepts
I attended the first Earth Day in Philadelphia and have always been a big proponent of (voluntarily) saving energy. My colleague Tom Chorman was head of finance...
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Comparing Real Prices
Michigan economics prof Mark Perry compares prices for a stereo system and for a state of the art TV. In 1958 and in 2009 in hours of wages. Insightful.
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Rise of Asia
Astute colleague Wim Van de Velde points me to this TEDIndia talk where Hans Rosling uses Gapminder charts to point out the rise of Asia. ' ... Hans Rosling....
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AnalyticBridge Newsletter
Once again, let me pass along the current AnalyticBridge newsletter, a good, socially enabled site on predictive analytics methods, meetings and other topics by...
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Telecommuting Teams
I was an early user of telecommuting and helped manage teams that used these concepts from the beginning. It's still a contentious concept within the enterprise...
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Package Goods Online Spend
Good AdAge piece on the increasing use of online marketing in packaged goods.
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What Matters Now
In Seth Godin's blog: What Matters Now, links to a free ebook from a number of authors, just started to browse. Provocative and worth looking at, agreeing and disagreeing...
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Is Knowledge and Analysis Overrated?
From the Harvard Business Org Blogs. by ' ... Jeffrey M. Stibel is an entrepreneur, a brain scientist, and the author of Wired for Thought: How the Brain Is Shaping...
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