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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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Controlling Swarms of Tiny Robots
From IEEE Spctrum: We proposed a variant of this idea years ago. Unleash a hoard of tiny robotic 'turtles' in a confined space like a warehouse to take inventory...
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Web Illiteracy
This ReadWriteWeb piece struck home. Lately I have been in a number of conversations where I discovered that less is known about operational aspects of the Internet...
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About Faces
Revisiting About Face: The Secrets of Emotionally Effective Advertising, by Dan Hill. What is more primal than a face? A good portion of our brains are devoted...
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Impact Games
From a colleague: ... A company called ImpactGames www.impactgames.com and it
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On the Future of Quantum Computing
A good description and view of the future of quantum computing, by IBM and others. In Computerworld: " ... Quantum computers could provide a big boost to technologies...
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Why Chrome?
I wondered about this question. It just seems much less versatile than other browsers. It is fast. Is it in the Chromification of the operating system?
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Continuous Web Showcase
Attended an excellent Web Startup Showcase today hosted by ContinuousWeb today. One of the best I have ever seen, with some excellent presenting projects. Hosted...
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Jeff Bezos on Innovation
Be stubborn on the vision and flexible on the details. Jeff Bezos on innovation in Techdirt
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New Google Analytics
The latest version of Google Analytics now includes new breakdowns of regions in many other parts of the world. Very useful additional extraction. See alsoGoogle...
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Internet of Things
A good overview article in the BBC on the Internet of Things. Really a relatively old idea that we explored with MIT with such ideas like replacing the bar code...
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Mobile Marketing Rules
Well put: 4 Rules of engagement for mobile marketing. Author Carla Paschke ... is Director of Mobile Innovation at Engaugewhere she is responsible for providing...
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Crowdsourcing to Create Metadata
Tagging images is one of the oldest crowdsourcing applications of constructing metadata...Dartmouth College researchers have developed Metadata Games, an experiment...
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In Search of Structure
Searching for data structure, From the Noisy Channel by Daniel Tunkelang. Some discussuib and lots of links about making data more useful.
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Collaboration as an Intangible Asset
In the Harvard Bogs: Not so intangible, I say. Today though it can be done in ways that were not possible formerly. In a conversation I had yesterday we discussed...
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Wal-Mart and Social Commerce
Interesting piece on the direction that Wal-Mart is taking after their recent social networking acquisition. I agree with the author that this is very important...
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Pads are Selling Fast
Tablets are the fastest selling consumer tech devices in history: From the Official Google CPG Blog.
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Turning Work into Play
A Mashable infographic. An illustration of game mechanics at work. Where exactly will it work?
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P&G Prepares 3D Enabled Detergent Launch
Procter is preparing a global launch of Ariel Detergent. The new version of the product was developed using 3D technology to attack stains. The company will also...
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Barriers to Finding Knowledge
The Google blog on knocking down barriers to mobile search. Addressing Speed, voice and images. I find myself doing more and more mobile search. Yet rarely...
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