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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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Flu Suit
Idea Connection sends along a link to word of a Flu-Fighting business suit. Treated, it says, to kill the H1N1 virus. I have considerable doubt.
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Google Squared is Improved
I mentioned my look at Google's look at structured data some time ago. They have recently announced some improvements. Not much like WolframAlpha, but sort ofWolframAlpha...
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Less is More: Private Label Implications?
Simplification strategies in retail.. " ... The Nielsen Co.
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Public Domain E-Reads
There are now over 18,000 public domain (free) reads for the Kindle online. In addition Sony eBook readers can access Google's massive collection of scanned public...
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Drawing Fewer Clicks
Short NYT piece on the Comscore study/ May mean we have to start looking at online very differently:'... A recent study, by the research firm comScore, has found...
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Chart Understanding Versus Complexity
Continuing the topic of chart simplicity and understanding, Junk Charts looks at four charts of economic data and how they can be compared for impact and understanding...
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Examples of Visualization
A number of interesting visualizations of data. The original piece is 50 great examples of data visualization. There is no doubt that these are colorful, finely...
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Neuromarketing Ethics
In Forbes an interesting piece on bioethics and neuroscience topics: Is My Mind Mine?. The author Paul Root Wolpe, .... is editor of the American Journal of Bioethics...
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Make it About the Customer
In the NYT Magazine: Faster Slow Food, by Mark Bittman. I read his blog. As a foodie and cook myself and a rampant technologist, this brings my two great obsessions...
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Adobe Mobile Offering
I tried the free Adobe offering for the IPhone today. Its a simple set of touch-up capabilities for your pictures. Its the kind of capability that you now expect...
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On the Tribalization of Business
SNCR and Deloitte announce the following study of interest, Includes downloadable study and a link to an upcoming webinar on the topic. ' ... Deloitte LLP
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Sample Size in Neuromarketing Studies
On of the most contentious issues for studies in the newly emerging field and business of Neuromarketing is sample size. Generally marketing analyses that attempt...
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Smarter Ads for Phones
In E-Commerce Times. Google had developed a new piece of code for phones with HTTP browsers to allow the display of advanced ads on mobile platforms. Mobile capabilities...
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SASCom on Retail
Sascom Magazine reports on learnngs ' ... Last week at the SAS Retail Executive Seminar held in Cary, NC ... was able to catch up with industry leaders and ask...
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Procter Plans Beauty Magazine
P&G to Launch Custom Beauty Magazine Rouge in U.S.: Package Goods Giant Plans to Build Database by Relying on Mommy Bloggers to Spread the Word. Nice to see bloggers...
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Starbucks M-Commerce for IPhone
A case study of the use of M-Commerce by Starbucks in Storefrontbacktalk. I agree with their comments, I have tried a half dozen M-commerce applications, but have...
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Fujitsu Rugged RFID
Fujitsu has announced that it has developed a more rugged RFID chip. Based on some of my own recent discussions there are a number of useful applications, for example...
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P vs NP Reviewed by Times
I mentioned this article some time ago, it was orginally in the Communications of the ACM, about one of the most difficult yet practical mathematical problems of...
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See Search Results as PDF
In what seems like a small thing, Google now lets you get a quick view of search results, Gmail and Google docs as a PDF. As a result you can preserve more formatting...
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