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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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NEC Pennny Tags
I have been long involved with the exploration of RFID tags in retail. Now NEC is indicating that they have developed the long desired passive RFID tags that could...
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Twitter Shopping Site
From Storefrontbacktalk: Twitter-Only Shopping Site Gets $4.7 Million Investment. Evan Schuman provides some interesting views of the funding of the idea." .....
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Netezza CIO Wins CIO Innovation Award
Justin Lindsey, CTO, Netezza, Named 2009 CIO Innovation Award Winner at 6th MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. ' ... Lindsey is the CTO of Netezza, which develops database...
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Building Leadership from Within
A Fortune piece on P&G's leadership strategy. How will this assure effective transition of leadership? ' ... What makes Lafley so confident is a rigorous leadership...
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Discovery Systems that Check Facts
Good piece from IEEE Computer that looks at the concept of discovery systems. This type of AI system constructs hypotheses from raw data presented and then continues...
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Pringles Lose Appeal
An appeals court has argued against them, Pringles owe VAT tax. Via Richard James. ' ... Procter & Gamble will be forced to pay tens of millions of pounds in VAT...
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Laws of Simplicity
Been reading some of John Maeda's work, we met him briefly at the MIT Media lab a few years ago. He is now the president of the Rhode Island School of Design.his...
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Inside the Mind of the Shopper Published
Herb Sorensen book is now out Inside the Mind of the Shopper: The Science of Retailing, from Wharton School Publishing. It details some of his work exploring how...
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Berners-Lee on Linked Data
This ReadWrite Web post points to a good TED talk by Tim Berners-Lee and give you an overview of the topic of Linked Data. With the suggestion that this is the...
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Microsoft's Retail Experience Center
A look at Microsoft's retail experience center.
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Bookmarks in the Recession
Time interview of Martin Lindstrom, who's Buyology book I have mentioned here a number of times. How Shoppers Make Decisions in a Recession, interesting thought...
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Computers Transforming Humanity
Good CW piece on the subject. Had a recent conservation about this. It has indeed changed our world. We are part of a considerable social experiment about information...
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Wharton's WIMI
At an alumni event yesterday I attended a talk by Prof's Peter Fader and Eric Bradlow on Wharton's Interactive Marketing Initiative (WIMI). Disappointed thaton...
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Google Squared
Googles new squared service seems to be a tongue-in-cheek response to WolframAlpha. Give it a try. Manipulating numbers. I do like Google's sometimes absurd...
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Global Innovation at GSK
Andrea Meyer reports on Donna Sturgess of GlaxoSmithKline talk at the world innovation forum. Their use of the idea of 'emotional talismans' in weight control'...
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Private Label Protection
Good short piece on private label 'protection' implications in retail from Nielsen.
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WolframAlpha Query Example
I had the chance to use Wolfram Alpha for a simple query today. I needed to know the number of cellphones in use in a number of European countries. So I posed...
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Publishing your Blog on the Kindle
You can now publish your blog for pay on the Kindle. More details on the Beta here. And more commentary on the idea.
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The Future is Mobile
Excellent piece in Communities Dominate Brands on The 8 C's of Cellphones. The 8 C's the different dimensions of mobile and how they have evolved. ' ... the industry...
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