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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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Kellogg Mobile Marketing
Simple mobile marketing idea from Kellogg UK, via Richard James.
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Lite Business Intelligence
Newly discovered: LiteBI. A form of simplified business intelligence as a service. Also their blog. Taking a look now, would be interesting to see how thisPentaho...
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Enriched Loyalty Card
From RetailWire. A new idea. A loyalty card with some additional benefits, such as low price guarantee if the price decreases within 7 days. Still is not about...
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ACM Queue Now Online
ACM Queue magazine has now moved online. It features a number of articles and blogs on emergent technologies and issues of software engineering.
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Anniversary of Internet Rules
In the NYT: How the Internet Got its Rules. Forty years ago. It should be noted that this is about the Internet, not the Web, which took another twenty yearsDarpanet...
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IPhone Home Automation Applications
A list of home automation applications for the IPhone. Companies that are providing them. Again an example of what I would like, a one device world. Standards...
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Psych of Twitter
I have blogged for years, conversed on IRC, run e-mail lists and chat groups. Twitter is the first method I have seen where there was a severe limitation of expression...
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More Alpha Hints
Stephen Wolfram talks to Rudy Rucker on his upcoming Alpha release. The work has gotten lots of interest from people like myself who have had long-time interest...
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Sticker Based Contactless
Now more than two years ago we saw presentations by vendors pushing contactless payment in smart cards and cellphones. At the time I brought up the fact thatIn...
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Modeling Financial Meltdowns
See Ken Karakotsios's work on modeling financial meltdowns. Great example of using simulation economic models while encouraging collective input:" ... This is the...
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Why We Share Knowledge
Good post by Nancy Dixon on why we share knowledge. Covers important implications for knowledge management and the roles of people within the enterprise. My own...
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More Simple Telepresence.
I have been examining simple telepresence tools, this article points to some examples. Have not tried these yet, but will.
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Goodbye SGI
A colleague of mine was a founder of SGI. I was asked if I wanted to join them when they started up. We used their graphics engines to do package design in the...
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Shoppers Making Decisions In-Store
Miller Zell study on where and why shoppers are making buying decisions. Surprising to me is that they did not find in-store digital signage to be influentialtalks...
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This Blog now on the ACM Site
This blog, among a number of others, is now featured on the re-designed Communications of the ACM site. I have been a member of the ACM since grad school and...
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Online Couponing
From Retailwire, a good discussion on online couponing. Nothing very surprising, but a good overview of issues.
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Free IPhone App Course
Stanford University has released a free 10 week course on developing IPhone applications. Based on a Stanford course, online participants see all content, but do...
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Gestural Interfaces
A good piece on gestural interfaces and some of their recent developments and applications. I have used everything from paper tape to light pens to the foot-mouse...
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Fail Fast
Via Steve King. Good article: The Importance of Failed Innovation. The comments also make some good points. I will add that it is also about managing your failure...
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