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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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Virtual Worlds Users Exceed 1 Billion
In Readwriteweb: A remarkable milestone. Some interesting breakdowns of the data as well. I watched the early development of places like Second Life. What continues...
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Ad Strategies for CPG
Clickz article on strategies for reaching CPG shoppers. What works, and what may not in a changing world.
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Center Store Task Force
In an interesting development the formation of a task force to understand the 'center store' in grocery retail and to get to the core of it's performance: " .....
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New Web Format
Google has developed a new web format called WebP to replace Jpeg. Why? Because they believe that it will greatly diminish storage space used for still images...
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BMW Integrates IPads
Report in Engadget: BMW has shown an integration of IPads into the back seats of one of their cars. Interesting and amusing. I am assuming these would then be...
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P&G Innovation Center in Asia
Procter & Gamble continues to open new innovation centers. Increasingly focused to region and goal. Just begun in Singapore " ... the LWC-S is an independent...
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Future Jobs
In Small Business Labs: Future jobs that are available today. A look at job, primarily technically related, that are exploding today.
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Texting with no Hands
In GigaOM: An Android App that allows texting and receiving texts without hands. The dangers of texting and driving are much in the news. A possible solution....
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Neurofocus Announces own Standards
Nielsen associated Neuromarketing company Neurofocus sets up their own standards. They further offer to share these standards with companies. You can hardly set...
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Future of Augmented Reality
Just received from Metaio. This is interesting because it talks about both a definition of AR and its direction. This is clearly a marketing piece, but it does...
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Phones Nagging Patients
In CACM: a study about using a cell phone to improve pharma compliance. Not a new idea at all. The general idea was demonstrated in the contextual innovation centers...
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Open Questions in Neuroscience Symposium
Ongoing ... note also that founder Paul G Allen is now on Twitter ... ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN SCIENCE2010 Annual Symposium: Open Questions in NeuroscienceSeptember...
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Mission Control for Social Media and Retail
In AdAge: Gatorade has established an interesting 'mission control' room for tracking how their message is working. " ... In a room crammed with flat-screen monitors...
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Eye Tracking Case Studies
Just brought to my attention for a study: A set of case studies from the eye-tracking vendor Tobii that covers a number of capabilities and study contexts. Previous...
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Apple TV
Apple TV is to arrive by this Friday. Sounds like an interesting change is underway. " ... Apple's focus is on selling you 99
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How Facebook Sells You
A very instructive piece in the current Bloomberg Businessweek on How Facebook Sells You.
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Rise of Apps Culture
Pew Internet on the rise of Apps culture. Or based on the stats, perhaps a non-apps culture: " ... Some 35% of U.S. adults have software applications or
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Chicago Thinkubator
I have been involved with innovation contexts in the enterprise, and had heard of the Thinkubator in Chicago, but never visited. They have established a new web...
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Tableau Software Blog
I just spent some time updating my Tableau Software visualization system to the latest version. I brought it into the enterprise when Tableau was first released...
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