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Focusing in the World of Digital Assistants
From The Eponymous Pickle

Focusing in the World of Digital Assistants

Until now you have been able to pick and choose in the world of Apps, hardware and services to help do your job.  The typical challenge has been between Googlethis...

Design Key to the Connected Home
From The Eponymous Pickle

Design Key to the Connected Home

How very true,   Even in small tests we did the complexity rose quickly.  I am now testing several home systems.   Design exists at the high level aesthetic level...

Nash and Business Strategy
From The Eponymous Pickle

Nash and Business Strategy

In K@W:  John Nash lives on in business strategy.   A Podcast:" ... Nash’s body of work in game theory earned him the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences along...

Incentivizing Knowledge Sharing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Incentivizing Knowledge Sharing

A long time challenge.  Blogs like this were an early example of feeding wikimedia sharing devices in the enterprise.  Gamification methods were also examined. ...

Facebook Opens Paris AI Center
From The Eponymous Pickle

Facebook Opens Paris AI Center

In TechCrunch:  Facebook: More than just identifying faces, using information in social to create a number of alternative models and link them to engagement and...

Maps Warn When a Store Will Close
From The Eponymous Pickle

Maps Warn When a Store Will Close

When navigating to a place we would like to have enough information to use that place before we spend the effort to get there.  What is more important than knowing...

Can Amazon Make Machine Learning More Accessible?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Can Amazon Make Machine Learning More Accessible?

In DataNami:First we had IBM Watson Analytics, then Microsoft launched Azure Machine Learning. With last week’s launch of Amazon Machine Learning, the e-commerce...

Retailers and Omni-Channel
From The Eponymous Pickle

Retailers and Omni-Channel

In Retailwire: More on retailers and omni channel via the cloud.

Wikipedia more Secure?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wikipedia more Secure?

In Engadget: It has been suggested that you could understand what a company was doing by tracking what they searched for in a public place like the Wikipedia.  Now...

IBM Pushing Spark for Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM Pushing Spark for Big Data

IBM Wants to Push Spark, Real-Time Big Data Tool, Into Mainstream In the WSJ: IBM ... has thrown its weight behind Spark, an increasingly popular tool that is used...

Open Source Tools and Software
From The Eponymous Pickle

Open Source Tools and Software

Open source has been a long time interest of mine, both for enterprise needs and personally.  Just reviewed some of my links to open source software and methods...

IOT Dwarfing Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

IOT Dwarfing Big Data

In Gartner: Internet of Things will dwarf big data.   Since the IOT will be a major source of data, this is not much of a big difference.    Some of the statements...

Waze as Panopticon
From The Eponymous Pickle

Waze as Panopticon

In the New Yorker.   Google subsidiary, social driving App Waze is sharing its data with Los Angeles.  Data driving and pattern improvement and intelligence.  Bentham's...

Open Source Data Visualization Tools
From The Eponymous Pickle

Open Source Data Visualization Tools

A survey of open source data visualization tools, most of which I have never yet heard of.

Creativity and Productivity in Smart Service Systems
From The Eponymous Pickle

Creativity and Productivity in Smart Service Systems

Talk by Jim Spohrer Director, Global University Programs at IBM" Boosting the creativity and productivity of people in smart service systems" (CSIG) The NaplesTalk...

Online Data Science Apprenticeship
From The Eponymous Pickle

Online Data Science Apprenticeship

Live and ready, just updated, DSC's online apprenticeship.  Have scanned their work and it seems to be well done.  Impressed by the work that DSC has done providing...

More on Kroger Online Ordering
From The Eponymous Pickle

More on Kroger Online Ordering

In Cincinnati Enquirer:  " ... Clicks to ease trips at Liberty Township Kroger ... Some long-time Kroger's customers say clicks beat old-fashioned shopping trips...

Business Leadership Mind Maps
From The Eponymous Pickle

Business Leadership Mind Maps

The Bigger Plate site has a broad library of mind maps, both complete and in useful template form.  Most recently a set of business leadership mind maps, I will...

Identifying the Shopper
From The Eponymous Pickle

Identifying the Shopper

Via Retailwire:   Retailers increasing ability to ID the shopper.  The discussion comments at the link are also interesting.  " .... If you have a smartphone in...

Next Waves of Digital
From The Eponymous Pickle

Next Waves of Digital

In Adage:  Interesting perspective ...   The world is moving quickly, so understanding what may be next is useful. Digital's Third Wave Is Coming: Don't Miss the...
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