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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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Universal Access to Knowledge?
See In O'Reilly Radar, by Linda Stone, about the recent settlement between Google and publishers regarding the scanning of books. There now appears to be some...
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Analytics Based Reasoning in Tough Economy
Register and Info here:Tomorrow at 10AM EDT: " ... IDC's Dan Vesset will present market research showing that increased analytic orientation leads to improved organizational...
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Best Buy Gets Results from Social Networks
Short piece on Best Buy and Social Networks: " ... the intent of the developers was to create a network that could help flatten the organization, promoting the...
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Don Norman on Happy Design
Don Norman's March TED talk : "Three ways that good design makes you happy".
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3D Patient Record Interface
A clever 3D patient record interface by IBM Research Zurich. Obvious in the sense that it uses a 3D manipulable image for something that is complex and 3D: the...
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Skittles Marketing Experiment
A recent experiment by Mars using a number of Web 2.0 services on their site is nicely summarized by Paul Gillin: Skittles' Bold Social Media Experiment. The idea...
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Paper Water Bottles
In a conversation with the design company Brand-Image I was introduced to their design concept: the paper water bottle. An example at the right. Some true alternative...
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Guidelines for Behavior Ads
From the BBC, a new trend?New guidelines on behavioural ads UK ISPs stand to make a lot of money from targeted advertising. The online advertising industry has...
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Cruising, Searching and Selecting
Herb Sorensen of TNS takes a scientific look at shopper behavior in their habitat: Deconstructing the Shopping Trip (so far!). Another excellent read.He also reminded...
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Creative Destruction and the Notificator
Not sure I would bet on Google being soon upended by a new challenger. Yet this piece makes some interesting historical comparisons. Things also do change rapidly...
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Visual Think Map
Intriguing site: Visual Think Map. A nice set of examples of information design. " ... Exploring creative innovative modes of visual communication of information...
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Cable Targeting
Good short piece in the NYT Business section on increasing use of cable company ad targeting. This is likely to continue to expand.
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Targeted Media
More word of targeted media using a system we originally helped design and test. Here in Progressive Grocer. These systems are usually installed first for shopper...
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Robots Start an Evolution
Interesting piece, though it is not saying that the physical aspects of the robots are evolving, only the algorithms that drive them. When a robot starts to be...
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Dynamics of Being Sorry
From Knowledge@Wharton, a good essay on the power of being sorry for unforseen circumstances. Early on in my enterprise career I was told that I used 'sorry about...
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Eponymous Numbers
Eponymous means, of course, something that is named after something else, usually a proper noun or person's name. I have explained this a number of times. Not...
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Wolfram Announces Intelligence Effort
I was a long time user of Wolfram's Mathematica in the enterprise. I also read parts of his epic book: A New Kind of Science. Which is now online in its entirety...
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What if?
Ken Karakotsios has a new post in his simulation blog called What if?. There he outlines the nature of models and simulation in a non-technical way. Over the...
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Amazon Exposes a TeraByte
Article on Amazon's public data sets, worth taking a look:" ... Amazon.com changed the retail world. In the process the company built up so much surplus computing...
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