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New Focus Group: The Game
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New Focus Group: The Game

Great idea, but I continue to see few groups succeeding at it. A carefully tailored game can be expensive to produce:How World of Warcraft Promotes InnovationThis...

Agile Design Podcast
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Agile Design Podcast

Podcast on optimizing agile design. By UXDesign, via IBM Design.

Automating Data Visualization
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Automating Data Visualization

Nice little instructive, technical piece:Automating Data Visualization with Ruby and Graphviz I often have the need to visualize data from the enterprise resource...

Microsoft's Retail Stores
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft's Retail Stores

Prof Peter S. Fader of Wharton looks at Microsoft's plans to set up some retail stores, and makes some suggestions." ... One of the biggest differences between...

Intel Investing in Social Networking
From The Eponymous Pickle

Intel Investing in Social Networking

They say why in this short article. Also I have heard 'Twitter' used several times in the non technical press in the past few days, don't recall hearing about...

FTC Says Self-Regulate Behavioral Marketing
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FTC Says Self-Regulate Behavioral Marketing

In Adage, see also the complete US Federal Trade Commission news release and report. " ... The Federal Trade Commission seemed to give a major victory to marketers...

Eye Tracking - Tie Tying
From The Eponymous Pickle

Eye Tracking - Tie Tying

Short piece on Google eye-tracking studies and universal search. Interesting to see how they approach it. I like the Tie tying example, it was one of the first...

Provisional Words
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Provisional Words

Nick Carr posts about Automatically Updated Books. Where he points out that devices like the Kindle can provide updated text for for any work. Great for a book...

Locations too Honest
From The Eponymous Pickle

Locations too Honest

I see that GMail has added a new optional feature to its signatures. It will add a location designation that it derives from an IP address. In an article, Wired...

Brain Processing Subliminal Messages
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Brain Processing Subliminal Messages

Roger Dooley posts on the processing of subliminal messages by the brain. Based on a 2007 University College London Study. It is known that the brain reacts to...

Harsh Truths About Corporate Web Sites
From The Eponymous Pickle

Harsh Truths About Corporate Web Sites

An interesting article. Has some good points. One thing I did not agree with was that a company should suggest that its employees publicly blog and Tweet, as...

Cellphone Location or Spying?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cellphone Location or Spying?

Google Latitude has brought it up again ... more on cell phone location.

Future of Newspapers
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Future of Newspapers

Nick Carr examines the future of newspapers: Smaller, tighter, hybrids, micropayments or just mostly gone?

Review: The Public Domain
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Review: The Public Domain

Just finished on a long flight: James Boyle's: The Public Domain, Enclosing the Commons of the Mind. Available for buying, reading or downloading online free....

Social Dynamics of Wikipedia
From The Eponymous Pickle

Social Dynamics of Wikipedia

The WikiDashboard is a system that analyzes the social dynamics of a Wikipedia entry. Good overview article about it in Tech Review. By examining the social dynamics...

Robin Wight and the Peacock's Tail
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Robin Wight and the Peacock's Tail

Met Robin Wight, president of the WCRS & Engine Group, at the recent Neurocon 2009. He passes along this fascinating video: An amazing theory called The Peacock's...

Cognitive Computing Project
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Cognitive Computing Project

Cognitive Computing project, seeking to reverse engineer the mind. Quite an ambitious project. See also Dharmendra Mondha's cognitive computing blog. I had"...

Kindle 2
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Kindle 2

Amazon introduces the Kindle 2. Again, I do not want to drag around another device. Put it on my phone.

Report from Cracow Neurocon Panel
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Report from Cracow Neurocon Panel

From the Neuroconnections 2009 meeting. The Neurocon panel in Cracow was run live on the Polish CNBC affiliate on Saturday. The object of the debate was to itemize...

Lets Simulate Everything
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Lets Simulate Everything

These articles give one the impression that general simulation is simple. Microsoft has been pushing the idea of virtual reality worlds. I like the idea but always...
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