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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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Hiding Things in Plain Sight
The invisibility cloak idea is an interesting physics concept that bends light around an object and thus making it effectively 'invisible'. Well known in fiction...
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A Bonfire of the Economic Models?
Why did most academic economists fail to see the sharp downturn coming? In Knowledge@Wharton: Why Economists Failed to Predict the Financial Crisis?. This presents...
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Procter, Coke Most Innovative
Consumer Goods Technology reports that BusinessWeek includes Procter & Gamble and Coke to be among the 50 most innovative companies. Proud to have been a small...
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Hubble Tech Live
Bit out of the normal realm of my posts, but my astrophysics background makes it a requirement, have followed Hubble space telescope for many years. Followable....
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Storefrontbacktalk Launches Research Site
StorefrontBacktalk has launched a retail technology research site called: StorefrontBackgroundHave always enjoyed Evan Schuman's blog on retail topics, and have...
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Netezza and the NYSE Superfast Network
You may have noticed I have been exploring Netezza of late, the data warehousing appliance innovator. Here is an interesting case study that includes them:Case...
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IEEE Computer Society Home Page
I mentioned that the CACM has a launched a new home page, to which I am contributing. I see that the IEEE Computer Society now also has a new main page. Has aIEEE's...
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Earned Media
Jonah Bloom on public relations and 'earned media'. Includes a number of principles that are well worth considering.
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Announcing: The Shopper Marketing Lab
A radical and valuable idea, from Dave Katz, more details as they emerge:CLIENTONE INTRODUCES SHOPPER MARKETING 2.0 THE SHOPPER MARKETING LAB SHOPPER DATA SETSATLANTA...
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SAP Expands BI Strategy
At the current Sapphire meeting SAP has announced a number of expansions of its business intelligence capabilities. These appear to be quite innovative in their...
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Customer Loyalty a Bad Thing?
Provocative thought, Many efforts underway to promote loyalty. Is is always a good thing? From Harvard Business Publishing: ... It might be tempting to pamper...
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MySears Community
Recently I took a look at Sears new IPhone application. Not very exciting, but it works well. They are continuing with a social networking called MySears. The...
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Tech and Simplicity
Technology simplifies tasks, but complicates lives. Good reminder, we need it.
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Asymmetric Following
O'Reilly on asymmetric following. This is an aspect of social media I had been thinking about since being introduced to them. He has some excellent points here...
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Netezza Links with eHarmony
Another interesting application of advanced data warehousing capabilities. With other applications matching consumers and retailers:" ... Online dating service...
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The End of Voice Mail
Now that I am using systems like Google Voice I thought about the ultimate demise of voice mail. Yet that system does not always provide a good transcription of...
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First Experience with WolframAlpha
Yesterday I finally got early access to WolframAlpha. I understand it will be coming out publicly in the coming week(s). It is being positioned as '... Making...
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Dating Sites and Smell
In Discovery. An approach that makes sense, but without a practical aroma interface, difficult to implement: " ... Two companies, Basisnote and Scientific Match...
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Shoppers need Deadlines
In the Atlantic: Shoppers need Deadlines too, on promotions and gift-cards and related research.
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