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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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Saving Money in the Cloud
In Teradata Magazine: Agility and cost savings in the cloud. " ... Increasing the bottom line is critical for companies, and the cloud can save them money. In...
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Mining the Social Web for Recruiting
What recruiters know about you, whether you are looking for another job or not. And new developments in these areas. Note the combination of search with knowledge...
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Zeebox Can Listen in
In Engadget: And it can tell what you are listening through analyzing an audio fingerprint. More data and less privacy?
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Customers Provide Marketing Value
I always thought this approach was obvious, but it is nice to have it restated here. Get your best marketing materials directly from your customers. Now there...
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Predicting Earthquakes with Smartphones
An interesting example of using a network of smartphones as sensors, and converting that data into a form that can detect earthquakes and then communicate them"...
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Stanford's Startup Garage
An Overview of Stanford's Startup Garage Course. From the perspective of innovation vs Invention. Have heard of this course, but this is the first detailed view...
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Boosting in-store Sales
In Journal Gazette: On boosting in-store sales:" More food retailers are getting in on the technology game, offering multiple options to boost convenience and compete...
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Web Based Brain for Robots
In the BBC: A little tongue in cheek, but I agree with the long range premise. That the Web has become a sort of brain with memory and store of expertise. And...
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Do Things that Don't Scale
Via Paul Graham. As a person who has always been warned up front to always worry about how things scale in practice, I like the brashness of this suggestion. Includes...
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An Optical Stethoscope
An idea I remember hearing about a decade ago. Besides the direct visualization of the data, the ability to transmit that data would be useful. Consider then...
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More on Engelbart
A good overview by Jason Hong, of some of the accomplishments of Douglas Engelbart, whose passing and personal interconnections I mentioned last week.
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Gesture Control
Using a Wifi doppler shift to do gesture control. In Hackaday. Not sure how practical this is, but an interesting play. Includes a demonstration video.
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Stickers Sell in Japan
In Nextweb: A phenomenon that I had not heard of. And based on my experience it is hard to see how blocks of emoticons could sell as a service. But it is selling...
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Looking for Active Design
Sites scrape lots of information to get better understanding of the user. So why can't this information be used to create active interface design, and a better...
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GS1 Urges Case Data Accuracy
Sometimes the very obvious need to get some little things correct can make all the difference. Here is just one simple example from GS1. Get your data right first...
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Loyalty Via Social Intelligence
Interesting piece from ..... Susan Ganeshan, Chief Marketing Officer at newBrandAnalytics, writes .... " ... Various industries use social intelligence to make...
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POPAI on Front End Shopper Behavior
In POPAI: A diagrammatic look at shopper front end and check out behavior. This is an infographic that I like, because it shows how things work, as opposed to...
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Supermarkets and Customers Dropping Loyalty Programs
In Time: Numbers of people in the programs are still increasing, but number of programs are decreasing. A fairly extensive article about this mini trend. Customers...
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The Future of Humans
In the Atlantic: The Future of humans in the approaching era of artificial intelligence. Its is coming, but I am still skeptical of the timing predicted, but...
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