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Charmin Social Network: Sit and Squat.
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Charmin Social Network: Sit and Squat.

From AdAge. Clever idea. Also interesting is that this is described as a wiki."Charmin social network finds and rates bathroomsSitOrSquat.com, a mobile social...

Motionx by Fullpower
From The Eponymous Pickle

Motionx by Fullpower

I recently posted about the Fullpower Motionx GPS application. I just took a look at their site and saw this page about a number of applications they are concentrating...

MIT Open Access Policy
From The Eponymous Pickle

MIT Open Access Policy

MIT is backing an open access policy to make all papers authored by its students and faculty free and openly accessible on the Web. They say this will move control...

Nurturing Good Ideas at Unilever
From The Eponymous Pickle

Nurturing Good Ideas at Unilever

Its not just about finding new ideas, its about nurturing them. It is about connect and develop. An abstract about an article in the HBR about how consumer product...

Future of Machine Intelligence
From The Eponymous Pickle

Future of Machine Intelligence

A report on the future of machine intelligence. What is now being called AGI ... artificial general intelligence. Contrary to what has been called narrow AI, which...

Bloom Concierge Cart Technology
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bloom Concierge Cart Technology

From SupermarketNews, this was a device I looked at a few years ago called the Concierge cart from Springboard Networks. This appears to be the first actual implementation...

P&G Site for the City
From The Eponymous Pickle

P&G Site for the City

P&G has launched a recruitment site, both for the company and the City of Cincinnati. Good idea for those out of the way Midwestern cities that I have come to...

Smart Phone to Become Universal Remote
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smart Phone to Become Universal Remote

In the NYT: The Universal Remote Dormant in Your Smartphone . In the 80s I recall seeing people having stacks of remotes on their couch arms. Then these wereone...

Primates on Facebook
From The Eponymous Pickle

Primates on Facebook

Somwhat dated from the Economist, just brought to our attention: " ... That Facebook, Twitter and other online social networks will increase the size of human...

The Middle Way
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Middle Way

Colleague Barb Didrichsen has a blog called the Middle Way. She is an excellent writer.

J&J Marketing Unleashed
From The Eponymous Pickle

J&J Marketing Unleashed

I was just reminded of J&J Global VP Gary Bembridge's Marketing Unleashed Blog, still very active and interesting. He also has a Twitter presence.

PC in 2019: What's Next?
From The Eponymous Pickle

PC in 2019: What's Next?

I recent posted about the Sixth Sense projector plus gesture interface. Computerworld writes about this and what other things we might expect to develop in the...

Tribalization of Business
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tribalization of Business

Tribalization site and study. " ... Online communities are proliferating as companies look to harness the collective wisdom and ideas of their employees, customers...

Inside the Mind of the Shopper
From The Eponymous Pickle

Inside the Mind of the Shopper

Herb Sorensen has a book coming out in May: Inside the Mind of the Shopper: The Science of Retailing, from Wharton School Publishing. I am now reading it in preprint...

ThinkVine Named Cool Vendor
From The Eponymous Pickle

ThinkVine Named Cool Vendor

Thinkvine, a local advanced analytics vendor that I have met with a number of times:Gartner Names ThinkVine 1 of 4

Data Visualization Reinventing Online Storytelling
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Visualization Reinventing Online Storytelling

Nice AdAge piece about the topic. I think that this can be taken further than just making data accessible, but also making it more valuable by making it interactive...

Google and WPP Fund Neuromarketing Work
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google and WPP Fund Neuromarketing Work

The post includes other links and brings up ethical concerns. They have been working on eyetracking for years. Have seen impressive presentations on that work...

Outline of Predictably Irrational
From The Eponymous Pickle

Outline of Predictably Irrational

An outline of Dan Ariely's book: Predictably Irrational, which I previously reviewed. Via the Noisy Channel. Nicely done.

Brand IP Interview
From The Eponymous Pickle

Brand IP Interview

Interview with Keith Harrison, Supply Chain Strategist at P&G, A lesson in brand Intellectual Property. How does a supply chain strategist think about brand intellectual...

Shopportunity Book
From The Eponymous Pickle

Shopportunity Book

Read Kate Newlin's 2006 book: Shopportunity: How to be a Retail Revolutionary. She is a former president of Faith Popcorn's company: Brainreserve. She also worked...
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