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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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Smarter World
IBM Video: Tale of a Smarter Planet on a smarter world, emphasizing global sensor interconnectivity and analytics to provide intelligence. Well done. Very high...
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Paying the Turk for a Post
In the news this weekend has been the enlistment of fake reviews for the electronics company Belkin. Similar to pay-per-post, but here the going in assumptionastroturfing...
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Civil Nanotechnology
In a post in the Foresight blog: Civil nanotechnology: Open source sensing in Seed magazine. The promotion of nanotech enabled open source sensors in the environment...
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Scrapwalls
Now several times I have had the task of creating a collage of images quickly and easily. Typically I would have perhaps a hundred design images or so in a file...
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McCloud Presentation at TED
Presentation Zen has a good overview of and links to Scott McCloud's presentation at TED: Presenting comics in a new (media) world. I read McCloud's book: Understanding...
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Visualizing Earthquakes
I just rediscovered the Wolfram blog. Had not used Mathematica now for several years. I know that their visualization capabilities are excellent, especially combined...
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Buyology Thinking
Fairly extensive look in ResearchTalk at the claims behind Buyology: Buyology: Sound Science or Wishful Thinking?. the final claim comes down to the well exercised...
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What Would Google Do?
Steve Baker, author of The Numerati, which I reviewed takes a look at an upcoming book by Jeff Jarvis called What Would Google Do?
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A View of Twitter vs Linkedin
Always astute Jerry Michalski sends along a link to a very nice description of why Twitter is useful. Although I am still learning about this tool, I am becoming...
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In Car Spamming
Via correspondent Richard James. We have long been promised the idea of networked automobiles, now this seems to be imminent. Though along with the concept may...
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Selling vs Order Taking
Correspondent Herb Sorensen of TNS-Sorensen has a great piece in his Views series about Selling vs Order Taking which links to the history of retail itself andwrote...
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Enterprise Use of Social Networks
IBM provides some interesting work in this area. I spoke to some of their people involved in this work last year and was impressed how they were leveraging all...
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Irrational Product Placement
I am a late student to product placement. Around since 1896 when Sunlight Soap was featured in a number of Lumiere silent movies. A frame at the right. Here....
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IBM Leads Patents
IBM Leads US patent count 16th year in a row, openly publishes patent innovations, seeking to "...balance open and proprietary innovation ... " .
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Smarter Planet Blog
I just discovered IBM's Building a Smarter Planet Blog: Instrumented, Interconnected, Intelligent. Which was started up last November. Following.
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Hidden Data
An example of Steganography, which hides data. While encryption " ... obscures the meaning of a message, but it does not conceal the fact that there is a message...
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Predictive Analytics
I have played in the space of analytic modeling for thirty years. It surprised me about five years ago when I was approached by people saying that they planned...
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Lindstrom, Buyology Inc and Brand Image
I attended Martin Lindstrom's talk at Brand Image in Cincinnati today. This was the third time I had been in on Lindstrom presentations. He pointed out that much...
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The Numerati
Just got to Stephen Baker's2008 book: The Numerati. Several people had pointed me to it. It is an overview of the advance of numerical methods since WWII. How...
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