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More Virtual Research
From The Eponymous Pickle

More Virtual Research

Had another excellent interaction with John Milby, CEO of the startup Full Scale Virtual Research,which uses some of the technology developed at Procter & Gamble...

Digital and Non-Digital Research Tools
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital and Non-Digital Research Tools

In Progressive Grocer:   On the integration of digital and non digital research.  Perhaps obvious, but it is well put here. In particular how increasingly granular...

Deep Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Deep Learning

From KurzweilAI:  More on deep learning.    On the future of bio inspired neural network infrastructure  intelligence.   We creep closer to human intelligence by...

Payment Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Payment Data

It is suggested that the data associated with payment is more valuable than the any payment fees  themselves.   More.   " .. Tomorrow: Payment Data Will Revolutionize...

Critics of Mobile Advertising
From The Eponymous Pickle

Critics of Mobile Advertising

In GigaOM:  Had not thought of all the issues brought up here.  Certainly they are all in play to some degree, but there are not enough statistics to understand...

Hypervoice from Hypertext
From The Eponymous Pickle

Hypervoice from Hypertext

The next Internet Frontier? Wouldn't you like to have voice data searchable, findable and sharable, in any language?   Imagine podcasts, speeches and voice consumer...

Less Computer
From The Eponymous Pickle

Less Computer

In Technology Review:  Turning any surface into a computer interface with an augmented light bulb.  I like the simplification.

Bringing Healthcare Home
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bringing Healthcare Home

A topic close to home recently.  I have now featured the technological aspects of this in several talks I have given.    An opportunity to use new tech and social...

Start Small for Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Start Small for Big Data

As in all efforts that deal with large and complex systems,it makes sense to start with simple problems. This HBR article does a good job in making the case.  Obvious...

Staples Prints 3D
From The Eponymous Pickle

Staples Prints 3D

In CIO:  Word that the office services store will start to print 3D items.  A method promoting remote manufacture.  This development could lead to the increasing...

Big Data in Ohio
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data in Ohio

In Adage:  More on the IBM Big Data and analytics center in Ohio.

DemandTec/IBM  Shopper Insights
From The Eponymous Pickle

DemandTec/IBM Shopper Insights

Our own enterprise was devoted to the art and science of being shopper centric.   Decades of research allowed us to leverage that capability against the needs of...

What Does Big Data  Mean?
From The Eponymous Pickle

What Does Big Data Mean?

Michael Stonebraker continues his useful set of of articles on the meaning of the term, which directly includes the volume part, but where we frequently forget...

Real Time Shopper Feedback
From The Eponymous Pickle

Real Time Shopper Feedback

In Progressive Grocer:  How BJ's is using a real-time shopper feedback system.  " ... BJ's Wholesale Club is using a survey platform from On The Spot Systems that...

Sales: Amazon vs Wal-Mart
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sales: Amazon vs Wal-Mart

In Adage:  A competitive interaction that we are likely to see more of.  As you might expect, some demographic layering here.

Columbus Ohio IBM Analytics Center
From The Eponymous Pickle

Columbus Ohio IBM Analytics Center

Announced today.  Columbus, Ohio event.   Brought to my attention recently and of interest.  There was an online video session today I was unable to attend.   ...

Neurons Interact without Synapses
From The Eponymous Pickle

Neurons Interact without Synapses

We were all taught that brain neurons interact through synapses.  Now apparently, at least in some cases, they can communicate without using synapses.   A study...

Robots for IPad
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robots for IPad

IEEE Spectrum has just published an publication App that surveys a number of robots and robotic applications.   This appears to be only available for the iPad systems...

Thomas Malone on Collective Intelligence
From The Eponymous Pickle

Thomas Malone on Collective Intelligence

Thomas W Malone was a consultant for us for a number of years. here  he writes in the Edge on collective intelligence.  Of course our intelligence has always been...

Privacy Implications of Cyborg Eyepieces
From The Eponymous Pickle

Privacy Implications of Cyborg Eyepieces

Much has been heard about the 'Google Glasses' idea of letting someone experience a place overlaid with a computer screen.  We examined eye tracking and Neuromarketing...
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