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Data Analytics Ranked High in C-Suite
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Analytics Ranked High in C-Suite

In Research Mag:     " ... 56% of consumer goods and retail business leaders cite data analytics as being important to their firm’s strategy, according to a recent...

Whats New in Social Science?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Whats New in Social Science?

Am a long time reader of The Edge.    So What's new in social science?   Pretty massive and have only peeked at it, but take your time ...." ...  Now, for the first...

IT as Creatives in the Enterprise
From The Eponymous Pickle

IT as Creatives in the Enterprise

In CIO:  How could this not be so?  An efficient means to gather data, pass it to the parts of the entperprise that need it the most and leverage it with continually...

Simulating Cardiovascular Drugs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Simulating Cardiovascular Drugs

The idea of this kind of in-silico drug testing has been around for a long time, we worked briefly with an effort at the University of California San Diego in a...

Facebook Buy Button Test
From The Eponymous Pickle

Facebook Buy Button Test

In Retailwire:  Will people buy directly on Facebook?  Possibly, but I have never see FB as a commercial context.   A test is underway.  " ... Users on desktop...

High Resolution Flexible Display
From The Eponymous Pickle

High Resolution Flexible Display

Flexible screens continue to emerge.  We examined them for applications like advanced packaging and integrated shelf displays.  Its likely now that they will be...

Watson and Academic Institutions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Watson and Academic Institutions

Have had some discussions on this concept.  There is considerable interest in academia, but the ideas have to be tied to course structure, AND be of real interest...

Project Adam AI for Visual Recognition
From The Eponymous Pickle

Project Adam AI for Visual Recognition

There is more going on in AI than just IBM's Watson, here more focused, addressing one of the most important tasks of sensory recognition.  In TechTimes:     See...

Thinkvine and Damon Ragusa
From The Eponymous Pickle

Thinkvine and Damon Ragusa

Have followed Thinkvine here for some time, out enterprise connected with them and have touched base  number of times since their creation in 2000 by Damon Ragusa...

Lost Links
From The Eponymous Pickle

Lost Links

Received another query about links that no longer point to the information that they should.  This is a common thing on the Web.   Unless what you are pointing'Internet...

Wearables in the Enterprise
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wearables in the Enterprise

Will wearables be widespread in the enterprise?  Well not too many years ago I could not have imagined hand held computer-phones there.    An interview with Bill...

Learning from Extreme Consumers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Learning from Extreme Consumers

In Experientia:  " ... Traditional market research methods focus on understanding the average experiences of average consumers. This focus leads to gaps in our...

Forbes Sells Majority Stake to International Investors
From The Eponymous Pickle

Forbes Sells Majority Stake to International Investors

This was of interest because I had a very small connection to Forbes.   'To accelerate growth they say ... '.  I liked their coverage of technical and management...

On Neuroscience
From The Eponymous Pickle

On Neuroscience

Short BBC piece that barely covers the topic.  Less about mind reading than it is about behavior understanding in context.

Amazon Bundles
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Bundles

Amazon is Bundling. It has been talked about and tested  for a while, and I received an offer yesterday.  To pay a fixed monthly price for full online access to...

Oracle Social Intelligence and Linkedin
From The Eponymous Pickle

Oracle Social Intelligence and Linkedin

In CWorld:  It is interesting that Linkedin is leveraging these kids of analytical techniques against the data that we are openly opening providing here.  Should...

Migrating to the Cloud
From The Eponymous Pickle

Migrating to the Cloud

In EETimes: " ... IBM is limbering up its cloud storage. Already committing $1.2 billion to establish for-rent datacenters in every country that needs them, today...

Business Value in Content Marketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Business Value in Content Marketing

In Clickz:  Includes a step by step look at what this means:" ... A new study shows marketers can't tie business value back to their content marketing tactics.Definition...

Judging Risk is Difficult
From The Eponymous Pickle

Judging Risk is Difficult

Why we underestimate risk." ... In hindsight, many risks seem obvious.  And when we do take the time to evaluate potential risks, there is often not much that is...

Paths to Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Paths to Learning

Stephen Few reviews a recent book on the Science Learning.  A good topic, because we still have much to learn about learning.  Worth a look, I plan to read " .....
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