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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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Hand Sanitizers
Johnson & Johnson's hand sanitizer Purell is of course getting a good ride recently. They have special news and related information. Should they be playing other...
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Lindstrom Among World's Most Influential
I see that Time Magazine has declared sensory marketing expert Martin Lindstrom, author of the recent best-seller Buyology, is among the world's hundred most influential...
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Quest for Computable Knowledge
Stephen Wolfram posts a short timeline of a Quest for Computable Knowledge. Certainly some interesting mentions. Includes things like Wolfram's New Kind of Science...
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Nielsen on Global Media
A very good pdf report on global social media from Nielsen, worth the read.
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Facebook Opens Up
I see that Facebook has released a largely open API. What this means is that you will start to see many additional parties writing applications for Facebook....
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Ariely on Experimentation and Measurement
In SASCom Voices: Dan Ariely on experimentation and measurement. Always an important issue.
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Twitter Quitters Grow
According to Nielsen News Wire only about 40% of the system's users comes back the following month. More stats at the site with overdone curve fitting. Twitter...
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Analyzing Coupons with Biometrics
Overview of work done by Neurofocus on the reaction of consumers to coupons and promotions. Multiple biometrics techniques used. Analyzing print and online coupons...
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IBM to Open Analytics Centers
IBM will be opening a number of global analytics centers and hire or retrain 4,000 analytics professionals. They seem to be serious. Press release.
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Emotional Cartography Resource
Michael W Cristiani passes this along, just now examining.Emotional Cartography: Implications of Visualizing Intimate Biometric Data" ... The (44MB freely downloadable)...
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IBM Takes on Jeopardy
In the NY Times, the technology section : ' ... I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of completing a computer program to compete against...
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Consumer Machine Vision
Sammy Haroon, former astute enterprise colleague, writes about work in understanding consumers in real time using machine vision and some of his experiences....
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New Business Intelligence
Tom Davenport on what he calls the new Business Intelligence. He studied Procter's analytical capabilities among a number of other companies. Pretty good though...
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Sears IPhone Application
I downloaded the Sear2Go application for the IPhone and played with it. Fairly basic interface that worked well on WiFi. Was able to browse deals, coupons and...
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Moral Instinct and Norman Borlaug
I was pointed to an item in the NYT by Steven Pinker on Moral instinct which points to Norman Borlaug. Name sounded familiar but did not register. The article...
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BrandImage Shines
An interesting design project which also includes olfactory presence and design by Brandimage
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Google Analytics API Launched
It was brought to my attention that the Google Analytics API was recently launched. Will take a close look. Much more here.
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Advertising Yourself
From Knowledge@Wharton: Advertising Yourself: Building a Personal Brand through Social Networks. " ... According to Jonah Berger, Wharton marketing professor, using...
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Fortune 500 Blogging
From SNCR, research results on corporate blogging and its use with other social media.Authors Dr. Nora Ganim Barnes, Ph.D., Senior Fellow and Research Chair of"...
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