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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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Neuromarketing and Search Optimization
An item about emotional engagement and search engine optimization. Two areas that I am currently engaged in.
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Wikipedia Community
A good Q&A about the Wikipedia community. The comments also post some excellent thoughts. I remain a proponent, with the usual words of caution, which can also...
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Tweetdeck on the IPhone
Have been experimenting with the Tweetdeck client for the IPhone, now in Beta. So far well done, have found no obvious errors yet. The best package I have yet...
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FMI Looks at Private-Label
FMI will start to sponsor research on private-label good and put on a conference devoted to private label issues. In SupermarketNews. Good direction to take.
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Facebook Increases 700 Percent
Social networking sites continue to expand. Blogging traffic is slipping. Reason is likely the simplicity and ease of short snippets versus longer posts. Probably...
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On Innovation in Manufacturing
Sammy Haroon and Tony Tsai, two former enterprise colleagues of mine pass along comments on the Accenture Roudtable report about innovation in manufacturing.
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Digital at Unilever
New from Unilever in Adage: ' ... Digital media and branded content largely have been seen as strategies for mature markets where TV advertising faces its greatest...
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Name Trends in Wolfram Alpha
One unexpected thing you can do with the WolframAlpha computational search engine is to determine naming trends. Fascinating, yes, but also a bit of minutiae as...
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Taking Another Look at Flu Model Accuracy
A while back I mentioned the inaccuracy of recent very sophisticated flu models and my general theories about how these models can go wrong. Continue to think about...
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Michalski talk on Bing
Jerry Michalski ... Microsoft recently re-set its search service, rebranding it as Bing and calling it a "decision engine." It does do a few things better, such...
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Kindle in Business
I have followed readers for a number of years now. tested the Sony. Never been completely impressed. A convenience at the beach perhaps, if you can read through...
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Tagging and Sharing Images
Image Spark:- Discover, tag, share, converge images that inspire your and your work. This is a good description of what I have always wanted to do with images...
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Design Books
Influential books on design in Karl Vrdenburgs' blog. Good, mind stretching examples.
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Not Tried Twitter?
For those of you that have not yet tried Twitter, and there are many that still answer with a scowl of seriousness when asked if they participate. I suggest using...
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Can Math Provoke all Emotions
Science author Ian Stewart talks about the emotions that can be produced by the use and study of math.-
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Flu Models Wrong
Yet another example of models being wide of the mark. In the NYTimes a look at the models done for the flu and how poorly they have performed. As a person who...
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The Fragile Hawthorne Effect
The Hawthorne effect is often brought up in industrial psychology. It was brought up when constructing industrial experiments and simulations where the behavior...
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P&G Pumping Digital Media
In AdAge: Marketing mix and other analytical methods are starting to show large companies that there is real value to using digital at a greater level. This has...
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Grocery Strategies
A good BW overview article on new strategies by retail grocery. ' ... From ready-to-eat meals to eco-friendly offerings, food retailers are finding more ways to...
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