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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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Web Squared: an Internet of Things
Good piece in the ReadWriteWeb on the the concept of WebSquared, or the intersection of Web 2.0 and the Internet of things. Commenting on the O'Reilly - Battelle...
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Fee-Base WiFi Dying?
I found this article interesting. While there may be fewer fee based WiFi options out there. I also find, when traveling that it is often not that easy to log...
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Whole Body Nervous System Scan
In Mind Hacks, a link to a form of form of MRI scan which does whole body nervous systems scans. Unclear if this has ever been used to understand any type of human...
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Ad Supported Mobile
Good case study of ad-supported mobile in AdAge: Where Blyk Went Wrong. Mention in particular of L'Oreal's use for consumer engagement which got a 70% response...
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Mapping the Mind
Finished reading Rita Carter's Mapping the Mind. A good easy to read introduction to the links between brain function and internal brain location. If you are new...
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Quickline in Grocery
Always wondered why the 'Quick line' used for a long time in banks and elsewhere, had not been tried in grocery. Now Hannford Bros is trying it out. The obvious...
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Samsung Smart Cameras
Samsung claims that it will soon revolutionize the way that people take pictures with their smart cameras, called tap and take, to be released later this month....
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IBM and Predictive Analytics
More on IBM's acquisition of SPSS. IBM has always been known for its analytics work. As early as the late 1960s we used IBM optimization software to improve the...
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American Time Use Visualization
From Junk Charts ... a good example of visualization. Pointing to the NYT's visualization of US consumers use of time. ' ... (Apparently, thousands of people recalled...
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Deeping in Deep Sea Fault Zones
Scientists Drill a Mile Into Active Deep Sea Fault Zone. Not for oil, but for science. Trying to understand subduction zones and earthquakes. Reminds me of project...
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Interview with Eric von Hippel
The Open-Minded Professor - An Interview with Eric von Hippel, MIT
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RFID Journal
Have now followed the commercial application of RFID tagging for years. I am particularly interested in the analytics used to leverage data from RFID sensors.The...
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Power of Packaging
Steve Genco from Lucid Systems on the Implicit Power of Packaging.. Met with Steve recently and he outlined the very good work that he has been doing with clients...
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Coke Freestyle as Market Research
Roger Dooley writes about the Coke Freestyle intelligent dispenser as a market research approach. I agree, it is a way to link research to differentiated delivery...
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Press Releases Still Have Value
A recent conversation at our little start-up questioned the need for press releases. Paul Gillin makes the case that a number of things that could be described...
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Virtual Assistant
Everyone likes the idea of having an intelligent assistant to help lead them through complex systems tasks. Yet almost no one liked Microsoft's 'clippy' idea. The...
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Global Collaboration via Reflected Knowledge
In HBS Working Knowledge, a look at how to make remote and global collaboration work. ' .... Based on 47 semi-structured interviews and 140 survey responses in...
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Time on on Web Diminishing
In AdAge. Not for me. And some of the comments believe that it is an artifact of measurement. Yet it does have to flatten eventually.
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