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FaceCard Application
From The Eponymous Pickle

FaceCard Application

Facecard: A PayPal like third part Facebook application that allows the transferral of funds. Intrigued by its possible use for non-profit donation work. Does...

Google Wave Threaten Social Networks?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Wave Threaten Social Networks?

Will Google Wave </">threaten Facebook and Twitter?-

RFID Improving Inventory Accuracy
From The Eponymous Pickle

RFID Improving Inventory Accuracy

It is what we ultimately expected from RFID tagging: a better understanding what you have and where. That would lead to less out-of-stocks and less over-ordering...

Unilever:  Blends of New and Old Advertising
From The Eponymous Pickle

Unilever: Blends of New and Old Advertising

From Knowledge@Wharton: Will the Future of Advertising Be a Blend of Old and New Media?. Unilever's "Dirt is Good," is considered by experts to be a perfect example...

Google  Communications Tool to Roll
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Communications Tool to Roll

The long awaited Google Wave tool is about to roll to early users. ' ... designed to consolidate features from e-mail, instant messaging, blogging, wikis, multimedia...

On Counting Shoppers Thermally
From The Eponymous Pickle

On Counting Shoppers Thermally

From Storefrontbacktalk. Video based tracking systems continue to evolve: ' ... Many retail stores rely on customer-counting systems triggered by body heat despite...

Microsoft Antivirus
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Microsoft Antivirus

Microsoft is now offering a basic free antivirus capability for its operating systems. This could start some tussles with other offerings.-

Data Mining Software
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Data Mining Software

A new blog which describes data mining software. I see that it covers SPSS Clementine, which has since been renamed PASW Modeler. SPSS has since been bought by...

Buy and Sell Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Buy and Sell Data

Infochimps is a site that says it will allow you to buy and sell data. A curious idea with some shaky potential issues. How will they be able to assure the validity...

Picturing an Uncertain World
From The Eponymous Pickle

Picturing an Uncertain World

In the midst of reading Howard Wainer's Picturing the Uncertain World. This Amazon link has a 'look inside'. Have read two of his recent books. See his site for...

Neuro Information Act
From The Eponymous Pickle

Neuro Information Act

Neuro-information non-discrimination act signed. Consider the implications for biometric data gathering and use.

Two Billion IPhone Applications Sold
From The Eponymous Pickle

Two Billion IPhone Applications Sold

Apple reports 2 billion apps have been 'sold'. I have slowed down in purchases and am about to do a purge of applications I have not used for months. Still love...

Free from any Source
From The Eponymous Pickle

Free from any Source

Finally getting to Free: Future of a Radical Price, by Chris Anderson. I did not get it during the free download period, but it was just as free from the library...

Neurocinema
From The Eponymous Pickle

Neurocinema

It is inevitable that neuromarketing methods be used to analyze high cost and leverage businesses. In the 90s we saw two applications of complexity modeling applied...

Web Squared A Tipping Point?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Web Squared A Tipping Point?

More in Forbes on Web Squared, by Tim O'Reilly and Jennifer Pahlka. It is about adding more of our increasing set of smart sensors to the web and then adding real...

What is the Semantic Enterprise?
From The Eponymous Pickle

What is the Semantic Enterprise?

Although many people understand what the word semantic means, what exactly it means when it applies to complex things like Networks, Webs or Enterprises has always...

New Google Sketchup
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Google Sketchup

New Sketchup version includes a number of useful changes. Remarkable package used briefly for a project.

Five Trends in BI
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Five Trends in BI

Good overview piece:Five Trends Changing the Face of BI Predictive analytics, agile development, user-centric business intelligence and improvements in visualization...

Aggregating the Conversation
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Aggregating the Conversation

Godin's Squidoo 'Brands in Public' aims to aggregate the conversation, then you pay for some control. Examining. Site here:' ... Brands in Public is a collection...

A Look at Clario Analytics as a Service
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Look at Clario Analytics as a Service

As part of a larger BI package exploration I took a look at Clario Analytics SaaS (Software as a service). You start by uploading your data via a secure FTP client...
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