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Connected Vehicles
From The Eponymous Pickle

Connected Vehicles

In Engadget:  Note the integration with decision flow.  Ford studies space robots to improve communications with connected cars.  " ... by studying the way robots...

5th Screen Digital Display Services
From The Eponymous Pickle

5th Screen Digital Display Services

I was reminded today of 5th Screen Digital Display Services.  They worked with us in our innovation centers to provide excellent examples of in-store marketingtheir...

Predictive Analytics in R
From The Eponymous Pickle

Predictive Analytics in R

Recommended by a friend who has seen a preprint, available in September:Modeling Techniques in Predictive Analytics: Business Problems and Solutions with R  byThomas...

Coke All Digital Ahhs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Coke All Digital Ahhs

In Mashable:   Interesting comparison of digital and classical approaches.  The strong sharing aspect is particularly interesting.    " .... Coca-Cola's first all...

Retailers Using Tweet Chats
From The Eponymous Pickle

Retailers Using Tweet Chats

In Supermarket News:  A view of how grocers are using and can use tweet chats.  Fairly obvious, but a good review of a retail strategy.  Not much here about its...

Tablets as Cash Machines
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tablets as Cash Machines

From the BBC: Using tablets as cash machines. Progress in the UK:   " The ATM of the future? " ... There are 66,134 cash machines in operation across the UK - an...

Facial Recognition in the Wild
From The Eponymous Pickle

Facial Recognition in the Wild

In the NYT:   Good overview about advances in facial and individual scanning and recognition. Pioneered for casino operations.  Crowd scanning for security applications...

Software Defined Servers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Software Defined Servers

Sent to me through a Vertica/Big Data connection.  I don't typically talk about standard software. Don't claim to understand it completely, but the integrationHP...

On Better Decisons
From The Eponymous Pickle

On Better Decisons

 Interesting piece from Bain & Company:  Steps to better decisions.  The technical and social aspects of the decision process have been a long time interest.  We...

Google Glass for First Response
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Glass for First Response

A few years ago I worked with a group that was building real time communications Apps for firefighters.   So this App could be used with police and firefighters...

Google and My Blog Takes a Hit
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google and My Blog Takes a Hit

Google was down yesterday.  About four hours I read somewhere.  I track the hits that this blog gets.  It uses a Google product Blogspot and is tracked through...

Taking Google+ Seriously
From The Eponymous Pickle

Taking Google+ Seriously

Another in a series of Computerworld articles that describes why and how you should take Google+ seriously.  Yes I know, another case of dependence on Google.  Worth...

Blueprints for Brainlike Computing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Blueprints for Brainlike Computing

In MIT's Tech Review.   With links to more details.  Computing more like we do, the article says.  More like is the key.  I remember there was much ado about how...

Predicting the Future in Big Pharma
From The Eponymous Pickle

Predicting the Future in Big Pharma

Former colleague Lou Killeffer interviews ... Ken Savin  ... Director, Process Chemistry & Special Projects at Eli Lilly & Company and the first At Lilly, Ken has...

Science and Search
From The Eponymous Pickle

Science and Search

In Ars Technica:  How media influences how science is perceived.   In the past it was about how science was influenced by the popular press. Now the ubiquity of...

Cross Device Marketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cross Device Marketing

In Mobile Marketer:    Not unexpected.    " ... Cross-device advertising commands growing portion of media spend: report  ... Interest in cross-device campaigns...

About Disengaged Employees
From The Eponymous Pickle

About Disengaged Employees

In the HBR blogs.  (Some registration required)New data on employee engagement is in, and it's downright discouraging. As this post by HBR's Gretchen Gavett noted...

Enhanced Drivers Licenses for Data Mining
From The Eponymous Pickle

Enhanced Drivers Licenses for Data Mining

Next week California legislators are voting on an enhanced drivers license or EDL.  More here. Such a license contains a RFID tag that points to a personal identification...

The Threat of Medical Device Hacking
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Threat of Medical Device Hacking

In Bloomberg:   A very scary possibility.  Though the article suggests that sufficient precautions are being taken for now.  But the potential exists as new hacks...

Science of Social Blog
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Science of Social Blog

The official blog of Dr Michael Wu on the science of social:Insights into social customer behaviors, big data, superfans, gamification, influence, relationships...
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