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Scent Delivery Kiosks for Women
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Scent Delivery Kiosks for Women

Face recognition in retail, see also related recent post.Though there has been much improvement in face recognition, they are going to make mistakes. Another example...

Growing Your Own Indoor Air
From The Eponymous Pickle

Growing Your Own Indoor Air

" ... A presentation delivered this week at the TED 2009 conference demonstrates how you can

Emotions, Advertising and Consumer Choice
From The Eponymous Pickle

Emotions, Advertising and Consumer Choice

From the Neuroconnections 2009 meeting. I am running a panel debate on the hopes and threats of work underway today .... I will post a number of position statements...

Attention Trust
From The Eponymous Pickle

Attention Trust

Attention Trust. I was reminded of this organization in my recent reading of Stephen Baker's The Numerati. They let you manage the value of your personal data...

VisiRule Expert Systems Package
From The Eponymous Pickle

VisiRule Expert Systems Package

I wrote about LPA recently and my own experience with using expert systems for enterprise improvement. Another way to think about this is a form of business process...

Wolfram Mathematica Home Edition
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Wolfram Mathematica Home Edition

Mathematica is a great package. I used it extensively in the enterprise. Yet it has always been too expensive for the typical home user. Now they have released...

Reports from Neuroconnections
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reports from Neuroconnections

From the Neuroconnections conference. I am running a panel debate on the hopes and threats of work underway today .... I will post a number of position statements...

Search at Kimberly-Clark
From The Eponymous Pickle

Search at Kimberly-Clark

Short overview. Enterprise search is an interesting problem. In part because few enterprise documents are linked the way Web posts are. So the prioritization...

On-Line Graphical Facilitation
From The Eponymous Pickle

On-Line Graphical Facilitation

Friend David Sibbet describes work he is doing to demonstrate the state of using visualization to run online meetings at upcoming VizThink meeting. Will be a "...

Text to Speech
From The Eponymous Pickle

Text to Speech

A nice demonstration of unconstrained English text-to-Speech from IBM Labs. I gave it the classic 'ice cream' example and it was not quite able to speak it differently...

Google Latitude
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Latitude

Google Latitude will let you see where your friends are on Google Maps. Newly launched, soon to be available for IPhone.

Finding a Job
From The Eponymous Pickle

Finding a Job

From Guy Kawasaki's blog: Ten Ways to Use Linkedin to Find a Job. Mostly common sense, but worth a read if you are in the market.

Caring About Blog Traffic
From The Eponymous Pickle

Caring About Blog Traffic

I do follow my blog's traffic using Google Analytics. I watch hits and and try to figure out why what I have written creates certain changes. I am a stats compulsive...

Bayes and Business Intelligence
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bayes and Business Intelligence

A very well one piece on Bayesian modeling and Business Intelligence. Now part 1, and just published part 2. Anyone that does BI should understand the basics...

Visualizing Target Growth
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Visualizing Target Growth

From Flowing Data, a visualization of the growth of Target Stores throughout the US.Links to a display of the US, which shows year by year how Target grew. A...

Singularity University
From The Eponymous Pickle

Singularity University

Ray Kurzweil has launched the Singularity University. More on a technological Singularity. A futurist view driven by technological developments.

On Microsoft's BI Strategy
From The Eponymous Pickle

On Microsoft's BI Strategy

Tableau Software's view of Microsoft's new Business Intelligence strategy.

Bullish
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bullish

With lots of fear mongering and money being thrown around it is good to see that some companies are still pushing private enterprise and being bullish about ad....

Success in Open Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Success in Open Innovation

In a recent review post of the book: Crowdsourcing by Jeff Howe I mentioned P&G's use of Innocentive for open innovation. A competitor of Innocentive is NineSigma...

Age Perception Game
From The Eponymous Pickle

Age Perception Game

An age perception game: How Old are You?. Testing several things: How well can a person determine the age of a person from varying styles of images? And how...
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