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Procter and Accenture do Internet Innovation
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Procter and Accenture do Internet Innovation

In Consumergoods. About time they are really seriously working on this:P&G Taps Accenture for Innovative Web Technology The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) is teaming...

Views of the Semantic Web
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Views of the Semantic Web

A Guide to practical semantic web technologes. Just reviewed again, it is worth looking at.

Creating Global Teams
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Creating Global Teams

Good overview piece, a situation I have seen much of: Creating Successful Global TeamsMust build trust and bridge cultural differences, By Peggy AlbrightThese days...

Store Simulation and Category Placement
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Store Simulation and Category Placement

I met today with Herb Sorensen and Bill Hruby to see TNS's just released Atlas Store Datamining Tool. An impressive piece of work that takes insights from HerbInside...

Tagging Visualizations Over Time
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Tagging Visualizations Over Time

A bit dated, but research at Yahoo about image tag usage over time. Here is the full technical paper. Not sure if this has gone anywhere, if anyone knows do let...

Rethinking the Long Tail
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Rethinking the Long Tail

In Knowledge@Wharton: Re-thinking the long tail. ' ... a new research paper by Wharton professor Serguei Netessine and doctoral student Tom F. Tan challenges that...

E-Mail Cautionary Tale
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E-Mail Cautionary Tale

In Slashdot a cautionary tale about how easy, cheap and relatively risk free it is to have third parties hack a public e-mail account. Have been involved in cases...

Visualizing Global Brand Data
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Visualizing Global Brand Data

A very interesting visualization of global brand data, a mix of geographic, network and more typical business intelligence graphics. Probably not the simplest way...

Simple Portfolio Analysis
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Simple Portfolio Analysis

Today I attended a webinar by Gary L. Lilien on teaching portfolio analysis using the GE/McKinsey approach. He is author of the book Marketing Engineering. Have...

Long Lasting Perfume Delivery
From The Eponymous Pickle

Long Lasting Perfume Delivery

Procter & Gamble's Connect & Develop program requests input for technical solutions to long lasting perfume delivery system.

Neuroscience Picks top Emmy Winners
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Neuroscience Picks top Emmy Winners

Sands Research claims to have predicted the top Emmy Awards (three out of top five) with their EEG based NEF scores, details in post, plus links to their previous...

Neuromarketing Overview
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Neuromarketing Overview

From Kevin Randall at FastCompany: Neuromarketing Hope and Hype: 5 Brands Conducting Brain Research. Reasonably short, but necessarily incomplete overview of the...

New at Qwaq
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New at Qwaq

Received a note about updates at Qwaq: Virtual Spaces for Real Work. Much surprised they have not received more traction. We took a look a few years ago and I have...

Smartphones vs Desktops
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Smartphones vs Desktops

Although smartphones have made considerable progress in being business friendly tools Forrester suggests that desktops still rule for business applications. We...

Zakta Search Engine
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Zakta Search Engine

I see that Mahendra Vora and Sundar Kadayam have founded a startup called Zakta. Much more here. He and his colleagues are best known for founding Intelliseek...

Unilever and Crowd Sourcing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Unilever and Crowd Sourcing

More details in AdAge about Unilever's use of crowd sourcing to replace some kinds of some product marketing. The comments are also interesting.

Spotfire BI Blog
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Spotfire BI Blog

Wim Van de Velde points me to Tibco Spotfire's new Business Intelligence Blog which I have put on my feed. I like their current post on five unconventional uses...

UK Lifts Product Placement Ban
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UK Lifts Product Placement Ban

Apparently in the UK placed products on imported shows are often blurred. Inside the UK product placements are banned. The BBC reports that this placement ban is...

Norman Borlaug Dies
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Norman Borlaug Dies

We see that Norman Borlaug, father of the Green revolution, Nobel scientist, died yesterday at the age of 95. It is estimated that he has saved many millions of...

Turing Test for Bots
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Turing Test for Bots

Tech Review writes about fascinating work creating a test to determine if a bot is human. The original Turing Test came from a proposal by computing pioneer Alan...
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