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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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Do School Libraries Need Books?
A debate in the NYT: I am the patron of a regional library that just relocated to a new modern building. There are fewer shelves of books now. There is an enormous...
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Browse Popular Science
You can now browse online the last 137 years of the magazine Popular Science for free. A good view of previous times. Pretty outrageous predictions at times, I...
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Hand Touchscreen
Body acoustics can turn hand into a tochscreen. Work at Carnegie Mellon and Microsoft produces a system called Skinput.
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WSJ on the Style of Inforamational Graphics
Good review on this new book. A style guide on how to do mainly quantitative graphics. " .. Dona Wong, who had stints on the graphics teams at both the Wall Street...
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Foursquare for Loyalty in CIncinnati
In today's local paper a good article on the use of the social location game Foursquare in the Cincinnati area. Good to see the idea being explored outside big...
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March/April Analytics Magazine
New in analytics magazine for March/April Analytics is brought to you by INFORMS (www.informs.org) -- the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences...
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Time to Take the Internet Seriously
Very thoughtful piece in the Edge by computer scientist David Gelernter, author of the book Mirror Worlds. Is it time to take the Internet seriously, or just let...
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Evolution of the Google File System
From CACM. An interesting technical and historical piece about decisions made at Google to make their massive file requirements work on challenging hardware: '...
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Best Buy to Buy Back
Evan Schuman in StoreFrontBackTalk writes about the intriguing implications of Best Buy re-purchasing used products: ' ... With the economy putting intense pressure...
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Crowdsourcing a Fragrance
Can a fragrance be crowdsourced? " ... New Global Online Platform 'Womanity' Will Try, With Help From Women and Martin Sorrell ... French beauty marketer Clarins...
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The Innovation Imperative
This is a relatively old article, but worth reading again:The Innovation ImperativeBy Darrel Rhea, Cheskin CEOOriginally published in The HUB Magazine, March 2006Attempts...
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Data Everywhere
From the Economist:Data, data everywhereInformation has gone from scarce to superabundant. That brings huge new benefits, says Kenneth Cukier (interviewed here)
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Addressing Writers Block
IBM was one of the first companies to actively encourage their employees to blog. As a way to accumulate knowledge and make social network connections in and outside...
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Implications of Mobile in Retail
Have been members of the non-profit GS1 for many years, download their new excellent 34-page paper on Mobile retail. Also had a conversation with Joe Horwood today...
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An Update on Google Knol
Around now since 2007, Google's Knol was described as a Wikipedia killer, but has seen little commentary for some time. I was surprised to see this article which...
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Mobile Apps Changing Retail
A good set of examples in Adage of smartphone Apps that could change retail. Nice breadth of examples, all worth a look, though I would add others. There is still...
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What Facebook will Reveal about You
I used to advise people in the early days of the Web about the dangers of revealing too much online. Things have gone far beyond those early days, but it is always...
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Digital Coupon Use Beats Newspapers
In Mediapost an intriguing post that further confirms the advance of the digital coupon. ' ... says the report, redemption values on its digital offering outstripped...
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Apps for the Army Challenge
I worked for the DOD at the Pentagon years ago, they were a very innovative group, its good to see this kind of collaborative work going on. On Apps for the Army...
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