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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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Pinterest as Business Platform
Took a close look at Pinterest about a year ago. Was interested in a largely non-text way of communicating, especially in a strong story format. I was disappointed...
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Encrypting Cloud Data
Google decides to encrypt cloud data. A very good idea to do this in general. Cloud data is a target.
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Patent Trolling Against Location Systems
In GigaOM: Lawsuits have been issued against Apple and others. The patent mentions systems that can determine and utilize their location. Should could have...
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Unilever Crowd sourcing Shower Taking
Not too many details, but consumer goods giant is exploring crowdsourcing for future consumer need and product development. Using the online package eYeka. The...
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Brain to Brain Connections
This progress at the U of Washington implies more. Once you can establish a brain to brain connection, you can also connect a brain to Internet to brain connection...
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Skype Planning 3D Video
In Fast Company: Not sure this will be generally useful. Would prefer interface and quality improvements to Skype. Though in thinking it through it might be an...
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Kinect Launching a Surgical Revolution
Manipulating virtual images in no touch environments: " .... virtual images can be difficult to retrieve and manipulate. A surgeon can't use a mouse or keyboard...
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Innovation Power of the Cloud
In Computing Now: Insightful piece on why cloud computing is linked to innovation. I admit that I started out thinking that the Cloud was simply an obvious tool...
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Digital Game Based Learning
Via the ACM: Digital Game-Based Learning. Abstract: Research published by University of Rochester neuroscientists C. Shawn Green and Daphne Bavelier has grabbed...
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Trusting a Data Scientist
A Challenge: Just because a study contains numbers or big data or statistics does not mean it is correct. So you should not completely trust any scientist for business...
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Civilizing Customer Behavior
In the HBR Blog Network: An anonymous, large network of commenters can lead to some nasty and self serving behavior. We all read customer reviews with an element...
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Data Management Platform Vendors
Examining the breadth of Data Activation: The Data Management PlatformOne vendor, BlueKai, defines DMP as:" ... A DMP is a centralized data management platform...
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Nokia Looks at the Connected Car
In GigaOM: Not unexpected, though I was a little surprised seeing Nokia here. A good overview of that this might look like: " ... Nokia believes its can useRumors...
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McDonald's and Augmented Reality
A good description of how McDonald's is using mobile augmented reality for corporate sustainability PR and positioning in Europe using games. Via Metaio. " ... The...
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Seeking Photo Collages
In Fast Company: Linea Photosharing. A great idea, simple design, a sort of Facebook without all the other complexity. I also often used images to record and...
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Defaults in Data Visualization
An article in Junk Charts talks about hating the defaults in data visualization packages. Well, you should at least consider what the defaults are and be sure...
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Next Big Thing in Design
Design has recently been brought to my close attention. Tim Brown writes about his book in Linkedin: " ... In my book, Change By Design, I chronicle the end of...
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Retailing, Brands and Consumer Experience
In the coming weeks I will be passing along some of the excellent work by correspondent Phil Hendrix. Here is a set of slides on Retailing, Brands and the Consumer...
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BI Falling Short
In the Forrester Blog: On alternate points of view, and ultimately adaptive intelligence. Intelligence, must almost by definition, be adaptive to new contexts...
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