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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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Public Relations 2.0 Examined
Good detailed article in PR 2.0 by Brian Solis: The State of PR, Marketing, and Communications: You are the Future. ' ... Contrary to popular belief, Social Media...
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Wal-Mart on Marketing
In AdAge: Wal-Mart on their increasingly sophisticated methods of marketing and associated research. Also an increasingly strong approach to merchandising in their...
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The Evolution of Private Label
Q&A: Nielsen Industry Insight Director Details Evolution of Private Label, National Brands ' ... Nielsen Co. director of industry insights Tom Pirovano noted that...
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Demise of the University
Don Tapscott in the Edge on the demise of the University. Universities like MIT are posting their coursework online. Libraries are online. Wikis allow knowledge...
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Mirror Neurons and the Social Web
Matt Bamford-Bowes muses about Mirror Neurons and the Social Web. ' I think social web activity is one which is a reflection of Mirror Neurons at work ... ' ....
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Mobile Coupons at the Dairy Queen
Interesting test which uses stick-on RFID tags at Dairy Queen, by Evan Schuman in Storefrontbacktalk, read the whole thing for other examples of the approach: '...
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Google Wave Talk
Jerry Michalski files a podcast on his recent conference call on Google Wave.. The Google Wave site also has an introduction. ' ... Google Wave is a new tool for...
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A Look at Google Squared
I mentioned this Google lab thing a while back. Google Squared. It is up now. You choose a name of a group of things and Google creates a table which contains...
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Procter Buys Retailer
In an unusual move P&G has bought the 'Art of Shaving', a high end mall retailer with 36 stores that sells Gillette products. A rare move into the retail space...
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Notes from the World Innovation Forum
Speakers notes from the recent World Innovation Forum, including those of my colleague Donna J. Sturgess: Building Brands through Emotion and Senses. A favorite...
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Investing in Science-Based Innovation
From HBS Working Knowledge http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6056.html ' ... In economic downtimes, businesses are apt to cut R&D projects that don't promise a speedy...
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New Book on Tagging
I was involved in an automatic tagging project a while back and reviewed Tagging: People-powered Metadata for the Social Web by Gene Smith. Now Understanding Folksonomy...
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Happy Birthday UPC
The UPC code, one of the most recognized global symbols, is 35 years old this month. ' ... the first live use of a UPC took place in a Marsh Supermarkets store...
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Site Tactics from Eyetracking Studies
A good summary of site design tactics based on eyetracking studies. Some surprising to me.
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LPA Rules and Term Sheet Generator
I have written about Logic Programming Associates (LPA) in UK several times here. They do Prolog-based rule systems, in other words, expert systems. Worked on...
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Kroger Links Loyalty to Minutes
In a very simple program, Kroger is starting to test the idea of getting free wireless minutes for purchases on their loyalty cards.
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Study of the Use of Emoticons
Emoticons, those little confabulated piece of punctuation have been around for some time. Some people use little image-icons, though they have been around since...
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Is the Cloud Reliable Enough?
Having now encountered several severe Google outages, this issue has been coming to mind more often. Now that just about every business uses the Internet to communicate...
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Wal-Mart's Self Service Kiosks
Wal-Mart has started an experiment with self-service kiosks. An intriguing issue regarding the resulting data ownership issues. Given the kind of information...
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