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Big Stick
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Big Stick

I see that there is now a 256GB USB memory stick. Expensive, but things like this will drive the price of others down. Will allow us to lose increasing amounts...

Brands, Games and Phones
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Brands, Games and Phones

In Adweek, good overview about how brands can be integrated into games on phones. This is something we examined starting a number of years ago. How do you take...

Objects Hit Jupiter
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Objects Hit Jupiter

Also not in the usual realm of this blog, but I am in a space mood tonight. It is clear that this kind of thing occurs more often than we thought. It also is an...

How Powerful were the Apollo Computers?
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How Powerful were the Apollo Computers?

With the anniversary underway, its fun to consider the power of the guidance and systems computers during the Apollo days. Very primitive indeed. My phone is far...

Neuro Revolution Book
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Neuro Revolution Book

From the Lucid Systems blog, a short look at new book by Zack Lynch and Byron Laursen called The Neuro Revolution. To be released on July 21. Looks to be interesting...

Cloned Dogs
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Cloned Dogs

Although a bit off the usual topic here, I find this interesting. Dogs cloned from trained dogs are being used in a drug sniffing test. If successful, this would...

Social Networks Spill Your Secrets
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Social Networks Spill Your Secrets

Interesting piece on the security of social networks. And the full paper, Google authors.

Self Service Wine Kiosks
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Self Service Wine Kiosks

In Storefronbacktalk: Pennsylvania looks at self service wine kiosks with face recognition and integrated breathalyzer. I like trying new integrated kiosk sensors...

Keeping Track of Your Knowledge
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Keeping Track of Your Knowledge

Just took another look at TheBrain, a graphical means of storing and manipulating your knowledge. A form of mind-map. Jerry Michalski introduced me to it. Explored...

Social Network for Researchers
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Social Network for Researchers

Will Science 2.0 methods like these eliminate the need for research papers?

Orwellian act Removes Orwell Books
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Orwellian act Removes Orwell Books

Apparently a number of electronic books were removed remotely from Kindle book readers after they were bought and paid for. Included Orwell titles. Thats an advantage...

Extracting Knowledge from the Web
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Extracting Knowledge from the Web

In the enterprise we discovered how difficult it was to construct all the rules to provide the capabilities required for even a narrow slice of corporate knowledge...

Contactless at Home Depot and Best Buy
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Contactless at Home Depot and Best Buy

At StorefrontBacktalk ... a good report on how contactless payment is progressing. Though I see the devices everywhere, it seems not as well as we were told just...

SAS and Social Network Analysis
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SAS and Social Network Analysis

SAS announced a new product that does social network analysis (SNA). This is something we experimented with inside the enterprise, initially with plain old e-mail...

Emotions in Virtual Characters
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Emotions in Virtual Characters

In ZDNet:" .. Spanish researchers have developed a computer model able to generate virtual faces which display emotions and moods according to personality traits...

Do Web Sites Matter?
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Do Web Sites Matter?

From Paul Gillin's Social Media Blog: Why Web Sites don't matter. He has some interesting points, but I disagree. I don't always want to engage with someone or...

Faith in 140 Characters
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Faith in 140 Characters

In the NYT, some examples of religious groups using Twitter. They make an odd kind of implied assumption that faiths are different from other interactions among...

SocialText Deploys Microblogging
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SocialText Deploys Microblogging

Socialtext, which I have used inside the enterprise for wiki implementations, has now deployed a microblogging appliance capability, this is unbundled from their...

Tracking Makes Life Easier
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Tracking Makes Life Easier

In AdAge, an article that makes the case that tracking benefits consumers and makes online life easier by not repeating the same message over and over. This is...

Online Coupons at Safeway
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Online Coupons at Safeway

Safeway has now expanded the use of online coupons to all of its stores. More evidence of the movement from paper to the prevalence of online promotions.
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