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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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1001 Inventions
Came upon an interesting book at the library. Libraries are still of value, they provide an alternate random encounter model for discovery. 1001 Inventions that...
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Optimization in the Enterprise
For many years my specialization in the enterprise was to optimize systems. We used many packages, up to including ones that dealt with very large problems ofLindo...
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Wind Telecom and Netezza
Press release about WIND Telecom and Netezza. ' ... The Netezza system was specified and installed by Netezza partner ICare, a local data warehousing and BI specialist...
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Digital Barbarism?
Reading Mark Helprin's Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto. A good contrast to previously reviewed The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind, by...
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On Neuromarketing
Bruce Hall on NeuromarketingMakes the point that this adds to the existing rationally-directed methods, but not that NM can add a deeper and more complete dimension...
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SEO Analysis Using Data Visualization
Nice little case study:SEO Keyword Analysis: How to Use Data Visualization to Make it Quick and Easy by Niels Hoven Do-it-yourself keyword strategy for under $10...
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Freeconomics: Giving it Away
From Wharton's Knowledge Today, a view of alternate economic models: ' ... Chris Anderson, editor of Wired magazine, extols the market power of giving your product...
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Marco Polo Explorers
An interesting innovation consultancy group. ' ... Marco Polo Explorers is an innovation consultancy that transforms consumer insights, market intelligence and...
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Designing for Behavior Change
In IEEE Computer, Ubifit: Designing for Behavior Change in Everyday Life. I have seen a number of lab attempts at this basic idea, this one looks good.
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Twitter Versus Online Reviews
An excellent piece from Adage: Forget Twitter; Your Best Marketing Tool Is the Humble Product Review Feedback Has Influenced Design, Supplier Relations for Samsung...
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Thinkvine and DRI on Grocery Shopper Behavior
What looks to be a very interesting upcoming webinar on Shopper Behavior, see full link for registration information: Grocery Shopper Behavior Q2 2009 Digital Research...
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Eye Tracking Study by Google
In the Google Blog: A good overview of how they use eye-tracking for online analysis.
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Debunking Social Media Myths
In Harvard Business Publishing. Short piece by David Armano with some excellent points.
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Neuroscience on 60 Minutes
A somewhat overblown segment on neuroscience biometric analysis on 60 Minutes last night. UK Neuroscientist Gemma Calvert, who we have worked with, was interviewed...
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Innovation at P&G, Wal-Mart, Unilever
Good AdAge piece: " ... considering the competitive landscape and the company's own recent history, P&G Chief Technical Officer Bruce Brown made a fairly bold prediction...
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Should Linking be Barred?
In the early days of the web the whole idea of linking to copyrighted content was questioned. All public content is by definition now copyrighted. That whole issue...
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Visual Attention Scanning
From Mind Hacks, of paricular interest for anyone like myself, who is looking at new biometric methods for understanding the consumer in their multiple decision...
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IBM Lattice Geometry Privacy Breakthrough
Mark Montgomery writes: ' ... Every once in a while someone's small idea leads to something huge. This could be one of those depending on how it plays out, providing...
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Business Intelligence Tools Analysis
Dan Vesset and Brian McDonough of IDC provide an overview of the state of of Business intelligence tools: 'In 2008, the business intelligence (BI) tools market...
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